Introductory technical guidance for architectural engineers and other professional engineers interested in planning and design of small confinement or jail facilities. Here is what is discussed: 1. SITE & OVERALL ADJACENCY, 2. TECHNICAL CRITERIA, 3. EXAMPLES.

An introduction to planning of small jails. Here is what is discussed: 1. SITE & OVERALL ADJACENCY 2. TECHNICAL CRITERIA 3. EXAMPLES

Contains 421 standards covering 32 program areas including personnel, training, safety, sanitation, security, health care, and supervision.

This book distils thirty years of research on the impacts of jail and prison environments. The research program began with evaluations of new jails that were created by the US Bureau of Prisons, which had a novel design intended to provide a non-traditional and safe environment for pre-trial inmates and documented the stunning success of these jails in reducing tension and violence. This book uses assessments of this new model as a basis for considering the nature of environment and behavior in correctional settings and more broadly in all human settings. It provides a critical review of research on jail environments and of specific issues critical to the way they are experienced and places them in historical and theoretical context. It presents a contextual model for the way environment influences the chance of violence.