Retrofitting prisons for earthquakes?

Oregon’s prisons, which collectively house about 12,000 people and employ thousands more, aren’t built to withstand earthquakes. (As a recent state audit and Shaanth Nanguneri’s reporting about heat conditions in prisons noted, they’re not in particularly good shape in other ways either.) The state’s prisons, like all state-owned buildings, face a 2060 deadline to be rebuilt or retrofitted to withstand a magnitude 7 earthquake as Oregon braces for a major earthquake in the Cascadia subduction zone, but the prospect of spending more money on prisons is a tough sell for legislators and the idea of building new prisons rankles criminal justice reform advocates.