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 Caucus wants to send jail inmates with severe medical needs to local hospitals, build a smaller jail with fewer beds and call for other reforms to address the jail’s extreme racial disparities
Temps in at least one unit have topped 149 degrees, reflecting conditions incarcerated people call a “living hell,” according to the study
After touring newly built jails, Cuyahoga County Jail Administrator Ronda Gibson has design ideas to improve inmate processing, housing and CO training areas
Fifteen federal prisoners remain hospitalized
State could spend roughly the same money on an AC system that would satisfy a federal judge’s order to protect death-row inmates from dangerous heat
The report was issued amid a continued increase in prison health care spending
Thirty other states provide the wrongfully convicted with financial support
Lincoln Hills workers have long complained they have to contend with violent offenders while being short-staffed
California will be the first state to pay for an inmate’s sex reassignment surgery
Michigan offers no financial remedy to people wrongly convicted of a crime
Critics say juvenile offenders have better outcomes when they’re placed in age-appropriate facilities
He has experienced what he believes are intentional noises and vibrations inside the high-security section of the prison
That should be the reaction to an investigation by the state Senate Law and Justice Committee into a DOC fiasco
It won’t be easy to restore confidence or extend change across the Department of Corrections
Additional food and water has been delivered to the prisons receiving the displaced inmates
The varicella-zoster virus causes both shingles and chickenpox
The inmate threw a ‘piece of fecal matter’ at a CO in 2014, hitting him in the neck
State’s correction chief said closure is possible because of reductions in the prison population and fewer people being incarcerated
The inmate said he was attacked for no reason, officers say he pushed a sergeant
Kewanee was constructed at a time when communities across the state entered sweepstakes to win correctional facilities
The lawsuit alleges jail officials failed to provide inmate with adequate mental health services
While the letter doesn’t explicitly say so, what the governors want is permission to jam cellphone signals behind bars
In the rest, inmates served more time than they should have
The judge suggested a $1M price tag for that, but the real cost could be much lower
Officers responded to reports that inmates had taken a CO hostage
Advocates say real change will only occur when prisoners are housed in facilities that correspond with their gender
Jail officials insisted the level of care exceeds that at other California jails or across the country
Efforts to revive were undertaken and an ambulance was called to the facility
The program, which would be the first in the nation, would help connect inmates with services to smooth transition
Last year, the turnover rate statewide was around 25 percent
A five-man, seven-woman jury took about 30 minutes to convict Freddie Mack Spry
The parole commission voted more than a year ago to reduce his sentence
Inmates must wait two years before reapplying