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.
Call sheets, mock drills and suspicious package training can help your personnel deal with threats effectively
Providing access to web-based services can give parolees more freedom, and increase the effectiveness of their supervision and rehabilitation
The L.A. County Sheriff’s Department is barred from holding a person in the jail system’s inmate reception center for more than 24 hours
Last week, Jumoke Johnson escaped from a federal halfway house and cut off his GPS monitor
Despite chronic overcrowding, the state hasn’t built and opened a new prison or jail in Hawaii since 1987
The escape has yet to be investigated by any outside agency, and an internal investigation has left several key questions still unanswered
Documents show the Calif. agency received permission from county supervisors to shred potentially incriminating records
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Anthony Gangi outlines what corrections professionals can learn from a recent riot, prison closures, and lockdowns
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The teens were exploring the Joliet Correctional Center that’s been closed since 2002 when one of them locked herself inside a cell
The ACLU has filed a formal complaint asking the DOJ to investigate the overcrowded and overtaxed jails and prisons
Several dozen inmates at a maximum-security prison armed themselves during a disturbance at the facility
The union president claimed the closures would only jam-pack an already overpopulated system and put the public in harm’s way
A state panel is investigating the Dec. 30 attack amid concerns that the officials should have been paying closer attention
Troopers were responding to calls of a second attempted bank robbery when they spotted James Morales
Police sent an automated call to residents telling them not to approach James Morales if spotted in town
James Morales is charged with stealing 16 guns from a U.S. Army Reserve Center and faces child rape charges
Joe Arpaio’s critics say he was a bully who was driven by a hunger for publicity and who treated powerless people harshly
It’s the latest obstacle in the state’s effort to resume executions after more than 11 years
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The state must disclose the number of deaths that have occurred since 1990 in Texas prisons, where less than a third have air conditioning in all housing areas
The figures released earlier this month by the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics show the state had the second-highest prison homicide rate in the country from 2001 to 2014
Four other people also face charges of assisting the escapees “in various ways while on the run”
The sheriff said prior plumbing repairs had loosened the concrete holding the toilet and leaking water had rusted the bolts
The inmates escaped the Cocke County Jail via a loose toilet, which they removed and then climbed through the hole in the wall where it once had been
The state has denied during the trial that Alabama inmates receive inadequate mental health treatment
California is installing nearly 1K metal detectors and scanners at its prisons in its latest attempt to thwart the smuggling of cellphones
Officials hope to expand a program that allows people to chat with inmates via video hookup at public libraries across the city
The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday opened an investigation into a long-running scandal over the use of jailhouse informants in Orange County, California
Some policies have been carefully and deliberately constructed, while others are lacking the same thoughtful craftsmanship
The probe will focus on whether the jail violated the rights of mentally ill inmates
In the nation’s local jails in 2013, a third of all inmate deaths were by suicide, and the suicide rate was 46 per 100,000 inmates
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