A new fall class at the University of Oklahoma will look at future design possibilities to improve the Oklahoma County jail.

Marjorie Callahan, an architecture professor at OU, said the class, titled "Re-imagining a jail for Oklahoma City," will focus on site location, cell design, programming, building materials and legal policies that may be restrictive toward innovative architecture.

The overall theme of the class will center around using architecture and design to lower generational cycles of incarceration, particularly when women are incarcerated, according to the class description.

“My first intent was to get stakeholders in the community and us to look at the Oklahoma County jail because the architecture has been so scrutinized,” Callahan said. “My thought was that these young architects would see this as something worthy of thinking differently about.”