Now you can acquire the savvy needed to capitalize on the boom in correctional facility construction and renovation! This guide offers you a one-stop reference on designing, detailing, and specifying correctional facilities of all kinds. Ranging from rural, campus-like settings to urban high-rises, the book covers all major components of typical jails and prisons, including inmate housing, support functions, and security requirements ... features an easy-to-use, graphical approach based on modules ... and presents a wide range of case studies of both new and remodeled projects.

Here's the in-depth information you need to initiate designs for a variety of justice facilities, including law enforcement, adult detention, courts, corrections, juvenile and family justice, and multi-occupancy facilities. Features project photographs, diagrams and floor plans, and sections and details. Highlights such projects as Elgin Law Enforcement Facility in Elgin, IL; Federal Detention Center in Seattle-Tacoma, WA; Queens Family Court and Family Agency Facility in Queens, NY; and many more. Combines in-depth coverage of the structural, mechanical, energy, cost information, safety, and security issues that are unique to justice facilities with the nuts-and-bolts design guidelines that will start the project off on the right track and keep it there through completion. Order your copy today!

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

This book establishes a new framework for the architectural design of prisons in non-repressive prison models to promote the health and well-being of all prison users.

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.