Facility Design & Operation

Picking a firm with correctional facility design experience is an important decision in multiyear process to build a new Lancaster county prison

COs, inmate activists ask for better conditions amid concerns over reduced social time, extreme heat and retaliation fears

COs are monitoring people inside the unairconditioned housing units for heat-related health problems

Cloud-based drone monitoring solutions provide users with operator identification from the start of takeoff, as well as real-time monitoring of the current operator location

The country takes a radically different approach to rehabilitating those it incarcerates

Spend your resources on contraband prevention early and save on the interest you’ll pay for response

The report outlines the steps the Penobscot County sheriff and staff need to take to comply with PREA. It also said a new jail would allow for better surveillance

Penobscot County is looking to hire a marketing firm that would present educational details to the public about the need for a new jail, which would have to be approved by the voters

There were nearly 19,000 male inmates in Alabama correctional facilities in buildings designed to house just 11,000

Drug drop offs at Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall are so blatant that arrows were spray painted on the fences to indicate where to throw the substances

A federal grant worth $1 million in conjunction with Iron County's $1 million investment will help fund renovation of the jail, which dates back to 1867

The project to build hundreds of hospital beds for people held in city jails is a key part of the "Close Rikers" plan

"It reinforces what we always say, 'See something, say something,'" Sheriff Gabe Morgan said

A resolution passed allows the state to spend up to $975 million on the 4,000-bed prison

City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams underscored that Rikers has to be closed by 2027 in her state-of-the-city speech