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 revised total is significantly steeper than the county’s previous estimate of $550 million
California Correctional Center in Susanville has remained open because the town sued, saying they face economic devastation if they lose more than 1,000 prison jobs
The prison population is at a more than 30-year low at about 32,000 inmates, according to the department
While preventing or predicting a DDoS attack is difficult, it’s important to recognize the signs of an attack
Managing IT projects requires a tremendous amount of attention to detail and strong communications skills
A man who gouged out his own eye while in jail says jailers failed to adequately protect him from himself
An attorney for a mentally disabled man serving a 100-year prison term asked the Montana Supreme Court to vacate his sentence
Former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez has sued a company after some of his jailhouse phone calls were apparently listened to by an unknown person
The sheriff’s office said Laron Campbell was taken back into custody and was being transported back to Santa Clara County
Officials say the men escaped from a dormitory that lacks security cameras and where guards stationed at one end of a hallway can’t easily see into individual cells
The report said the facility is operating in crisis and it’s making the staff and women housed there much less safe
Overseeing chronically overcrowded, rapidly deteriorating facilities, Oklahoma’s prison director is seeking to triple his department’s budget
The work is part of the ongoing effort by the DOC to comply with an agreement reached in a lawsuit over the department’s treatment of inmates with mental health issues.
The loaf was a combination of beans, rice, raw potatoes, carrots, cabbage and oatmeal
A Northern California sheriff is promising to capture a pair of men who sawed their way out of a California jail.
The inmates cut their way through the bars of a second-story window and rappelled down the side of the jail using a makeshift rope of bedding and clothing
The new program is part of the state’s justice reinvestment project to help reduce the number of prisoners and keep offenders from committing new crimes
Jail inmates and wild horses are helping each other learn to adapt through a California program
Most of the jail’s denizens are awaiting trial on property, drug or public order crimes, or because they violated probation
The federally funded review found that the mostly nonviolent women at Logan Correctional Center are often classified as higher security risks than necessary
Offenders who suffer from mental health and substance abuse disorders do not respond well to traditional alternative sentence programming
Jessie Con-ui put federal prosecutors on notice that he plans to use a “mental disease or defect” defense against the death penalty if convicted of murdering a CO
Officials are concerned the passage of a law that provides early parole consideration will place more felons “back on the streets” without addressing program gaps
Anthony Gangi sits down with Matthew Gallup and discusses the Body Beacon
Getting your facility together to complete this task will prepare you to jump into the grant application planning process and application much more quickly
Kristin A. King said in her suit that she was disciplined differently than her male counterparts and then fired, all based on her status as a gay woman
Gov. Jerry Brown is asking voters to change California’s sentencing laws in Tuesday’s election by giving corrections officials more say in when criminals are released
Sheriff Ron Hickman is asking the state jail commission to let 200 inmates sleep on plastic cots on the floor of the already overcrowded county jail system
The warden of a Hawaii jail testified Wednesday that he showed inmates violent sexual films as part of a program he created
While diversion and treatment programs exist for inmates who suffer from mental illness, they remain questionably effective
Prisoners’ rights activists say the coordinated effort is one of the largest prison protests in modern history, drawing in at least 20,000 inmates
At one point this spring, a court-appointed watchdog found that 30% of all medical jobs at the county’s two jails weren’t filled
