Facility Design and Operation
Facility Design and Operation are fundamental to correctional facilities’ safety, efficiency, and effectiveness. This directory provides articles and resources on best practices in facility layout, construction, and daily operations. Proper design and operation not only enhance security but also improve the working environment for staff and living conditions for inmates. For more on maintaining optimal facility standards, explore our section on Correctional Facility Maintenance.
The funding request includes anti-drone systems, mail scanning technology and a dedicated transport team following the 2024 hospital attack on COs
Richland County officials hope renovations, corrections officer sign-on bonuses and tighter policies can turn the jail around
Priority should be placed on enhancing safety, reliability and operational efficiency
The department’s vision centers around transforming the state’s correctional system, “which has been historically perceived as a punitive model, " shifting to a focus on rehabilitation and restoration, and reducing recidivism
The council suggests retraining corrections officers, reducing inmate numbers for individual cells, enhancing staff amenities and creating re-entry beds for post-release transition
The planned changes will include new perimeter fencing, security cameras and other components that will improve the entire system
Danelo Cavalcante’s crab-walk escape from a prison yard prompted Chester County prison to add more razor wire around vulnerable areas within 3 1/2 months to prevent further escapes
Three COs at Allen Oakwood Correctional Institution may face disciplinary action in connection with the two escapes back in May
Equipping Florida correctional institutions with a proper HVAC system could take up to 20 years to complete and would require the state spend $582 million
The auditing firm recommends the DOC build three new prisons and two new hospitals over the next 20 years, and close four aging prisons
In October 2022, there was a daily average of 835 total people in jail; it has increased 32% this year
“The more people, the more tensions, the more risk for individuals to fight, to create other issues in our facility,” Ada County Sheriff’s Office Lt. Shem McCulloch said
The Greene County sheriff said the new facility will help address needs for mental health services and better equip inmates to reenter society
Sheriff Tyree Jones said the jail now has fewer than 400 people being held in other pods, which should alleviate some concerns about short staffing and help ensure public safety
Allegations made to the civilian oversight board include overflowing toilets, racial insensitivity and lack of sanitation gear for inmates
Insufficient state funding and a deteriorating 125-year-old facility compound safety challenges for both inmates and staff
A strong relationship between a correctional facility and an ombudsman is critical in the pursuit of excellence
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
The country takes a radically different approach to rehabilitating those it incarcerates
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
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