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 Behavior Care Center is reshaping how the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office helps people who are having psychotic episodes
Filling more than 1,300 security vacancies and competing with county jails and hospitals for talent is also a focus in the budget request
While direct supervision is nothing new, some people still don’t understand the benefits of the concept
The privately run prison is closing after a sex scandal struck
Secret detention center will hold and interrogate suspected high-level members of a radical Islamist sect
The new facility a€” open just 18 months and two-thirds empty a€” will close next year
The jail uses about as much electricity as a small town, and its annual utility bill hovers around $3 million
Groups expressed concern about the closure of one of the largest full-time employers in the county
When it opens to nonviolent offenders next month, the new wing will allow prison authorities to group 512 men within 56,000 square feet, organized into dormitory-style units of 32 bunks
An 11-year-old jail has become the first state prison in the nation to be sold to a private company
Official: No deaths from heat this year
The hidden expense was never discussed in public last spring when the Legislature pushed ahead with the most ambitious privatization venture
Los Angeles County supervisors condemned Sacramento’s cost-cutting decision to keep some state prisoners in local lockups
The compound in southwest Phoenix has housed more than 500,000 people – including a handful of celebrities and corporate executives in addition to more common criminals
In response to a federal order to reduce overcrowding and also to trim state prison system costs, the state is shifting tens of thousands of minimum-security inmates to counties
Some of the same vulnerabilities that the Stuxnet superworm used to sabotage centrifuges at a nuclear plant in Iran exist in high-security prisons
Medium-security detention facility is being auctioned off
More than 100 corrections officers from the Passaic County Jail took to the streets to deliver pamphlets opposing a plan to close the facility
The prison had been in a lockdown since Tuesday as officials searched the facility cell by cell to find drugs, DVDs and other contraband
A federal judge has ordered Orange County to make its jails accessible to disabled inmates and bring its facilities into compliance with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act
Move will save the state $184 M
A clothing shortage is forcing inmates in at least one Illinois prison to wear the same underwear several days in a row
Increase from 10 and 12 cents per minute to 18 to 20 cents per minute
Willacy County Sheriff Larry Spence said local officials hope the new contract will restore the lost jobs and bring promised revenue to the county
Corrections Institute Inspector Barry Suttles said Wednesday afternoon that the jail was decertified in a vote by the institute’s control board
Staff are providing ice and granting additional showering for the inmate population affected
Inspector general found that about 1,500 offenders were improperly released, including 450 who “carry a high risk for violence”
Arizona shows that popular wisdom might be wrong: Data there suggest that privately operated prisons can cost more to operate than state-run prisons
Department of Criminal Justice spokeswoman Michelle Lyons said the closure would save $25 million over two years
Morris County Jail offers a variety of programs — from educational to athletic to religious — to the roughly 350 male and female inmates currently serving time
The Concord state prison would lose as many as 600 inmates to private facilities under a cost-cutting proposal
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