Implementing sustainable design principles within correctional facilities serves to interconnect justice with individual and societal wellness that positively impacts the built environment.
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Embarking on a construction project, many jurisdictions have their hands tied by legislation when it comes to how they can bid and award a construction project. Many times, regardless of a project’s size or complexity, schedule and budget considerations, the project delivery decision is already set in stone.
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While this article is focused on New York City’s jails story, it is shared in the context of the journey that every owner must engage in as they plan and implement an alternative delivery project. Delivering any project requires an interplay between the owner’s needs and goals and willing participants in the market such that builders and designers assess that they can successfully deliver the project’s scope and quality within schedule and on budget…while managing risks.
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Since 2018, Dewberry has worked with architecture firm Continuum Architects + Planners, construction company Gilbane, and client Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, to plan for and design a new secure residential care center for children and youth (SRCCCY).
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One would be easily forgiven for thinking that life is not one grand result but actually the sum of its parts. To some extent, every part of life is a project seeking a manager whether its buying a new house; planning a well-deserved holiday; or building a new jail in one of the New York boroughs. Satisfaction is achieved if the required decisions along are vested in trust; trust of the evidence, the effort, and the people responsible for the outcome.
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With the recent ceremonial shoveling of dirt by Duplin County officials, construction is officially underway on its new detention center. The urgently needed venue will replace the county’s current outdated jail.
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Through facility reorganizations, a zero-tolerance policy to drugs and contraband, enhanced community partnerships, and new leadership, the Virginia Department of Corrections’ (VADOC) Greensville Correctional Center reports continued improvement in its aim to provide effective incarceration that helps ensure long-term public safety in Virginia.
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Within correctional healthcare, telemedicine technologies are a valuable tool in meeting inmate populations’ complex needs ranging from routine medical check-ups to emergency interventions.
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Courthouses and other municipal buildings are being renovated and upgraded throughout the U.S.
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Perhaps the rarified air at 35,000 feet while returning from the TIC (Technology in Corrections) and IPIC (Innovative Prison Infrastructure Conference) in Istanbul will bring clarity to a complicated, but essential topic that has been and will continue to impact the planning, design, equipping, and maintaining of correctional facilities. The planning for these two long-awaited consecutive conferences began before the global pandemic and involved members from the Technology and Planning & Design Networks of the ICPA. So, this is being written over the Atlantic Ocean.
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