Broward County Judicial Complex Features Successful Design
The Broward County Judicial Complex West Building celebrated a ribbon-cutting ceremony on May 11.
Read moreThe Broward County Judicial Complex West Building celebrated a ribbon-cutting ceremony on May 11.
Read moreThe 192-bed housing complex addition at the Central Utah Correctional Facility in Gunnison, Utah, is just the beginning of a major transformation to the state’s prison system.
Read moreThe Lake County Courthouse held a topping out ceremony on April 11 to mark the placement of the final beam atop its new eight-story tower.
Read moreThe corrections industry currently faces a paradigm shift that will have a major effect on correctional design
Read moreDALLAS — Dallas-headquartered Securus Technologies — a leading provider of civil and criminal justice technology solutions for public safety, investigation, corrections and monitoring — last week announced the results of a national survey conducted at the company’s state-of-the-art, $1.5 million Technology Center.
Read moreAUSTIN, Texas — Texas state lawmakers in both the House and Senate voted on Monday in support of House Bill 549, requiring that county jails provide inmates with greater access to in-person visitation. The bill, brought by Rep.
Read moreThe jail in Washington, D.C., recently began to allow family members to visit inmates by video conference. The problem is, in-person meetings are no longer permitted. The only way families can see each other now is by sitting in front of a computer screen several blocks apart.
Read moreDAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — The Corrections Technology Association (CTA) held its 13th annual summit with sessions titled “Innovative Cross-Jurisdictional Data Sharing,” “Implementation Initiatives/Lessons Learned,” and “Solving Correctional Problems with Innovative Technologies.”
Workshops with practitioners and providers demonstrated technologies such as automated inmate entitlements tracking and video visitation.
Read moreA recent report by the Pew Research Center found that recidivism rates have remained largely stable, based on a comparison of inmates released from prison in 1999 and 2004. This is a discouraging statistic, given that reducing recidivism is integral to corrections’ core mission to protect the public.
Read moreAs correctional facilities continue to deal with locked-down budgets, converting conventional, face-to-face visitation to remote, video visitation has emerged as a way to reduce operational costs.