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.
Reaccreditation is an ongoing process that involves constant preparation, training, communication and monitoring
At this crucial infection point we need ‘all of the community’ to help halt transmission in our corrections systems
Maintaining security and safety is more than installing a product and collecting data
Plans for a new death row complex at San Quentin began in 2003, during the administration of Gov. Gray Davis, and were continued by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
The legislature is considering whether to ease crowding in the state prison system by sending low-risk inmates to the county jails
The expanded DeSoto County Jail fires the starting gun to construction on the long-awaited, $16 million facility to ease inmate crowding
The new prison will house mostly medium-security prisoners, with a few hundred minimum- and maximum-security inmates
The new prison, which was finished last summer, has no inmates and only a handful of correctional officers.
In its early years, the California Institution for Men was set up in Chino to be the “prison without walls,” bearing little resemblance to today’s overcrowded institution
Border Solar, an El Paso company, has beguns solar panel construction at two prisons in Otero County
Would cost roughly $500 million to move Utah State Prison at Point of the Mountain
No inmates have been moved as a result of the mold.
Sentencing leads to older inmate population
Officials are mulling a $72.7 million proposal to build inmate-processing and jail-diversion facilities
All male inmates are currently being housed in the former gymnasium
On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel will return to San Quentin for a tour of the state’s new and untested death chamber
Concern remains over using LAPD officers as guards at the new facility
The contract for the first phase of the $356 million death row complex at San Quentin State Prison until Feb. 9
CCTV videos can help us shine as professionals and capture evidence when inmates and officers break the rules
A city panel signed off Monday on a plan to reassign 83 LAPD officers to work as jailers at new Metropolitan Detention Center
Currently, 53,000 inmates are housed in a prison system built for 32,000
Partial result of policy that encouraged sending minor offendors to nearby cheaper facilities
Justice Dept. eyes expanding lawsuit against the Erie County Holding Center
The inmates were seen smashing sprinkler heads during lockdown last July
Corrections Corporation of America holds 20th anniversary celebration in prison’s gymnasium
Authorities say that there have been few such incidents in jails, but Delco has had at least 5 since May
Each living quarter has washers, dryers, microwaves, hair dryers and curling irons
Occupancy for the new 24-bed facility is scheduled for 2012
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