BRYAN, Texas — Brazos County is considering an expansion that would more than double the size of its existing juvenile justice facility in Bryan. In response to a steadily growing local population and an anticipated need for more juvenile justice services, the county selected Treanor Architects’ Dallas office to complete a feasibility study that will examine different expansion options.
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NEW LONDON, Ontario — The Ontario Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services announced on May 5 that work to expand the Elgin Middlesex Detention Centre in New London is now underway.
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Work on the new $100.5 million Kern County Justice Facility in Bakersfield is on track to begin in August 2015.
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — On August 25, Oldcastle Modular set the last precast concrete cell module for the new $29 million Reno County Correctional Facility expansion, completing the precast portion of the facility and marking a significant milestone for the project.
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah recently became the 25th state to embark on a corrections and sentencing reform campaign aimed improving rehabilitation and reducing recidivism and prison construction.
HERNANDO, Miss. — DeSoto County supervisors recently approved the second phase of construction on the DeSoto County jail, which will include space for 268 new inmates. When completed, the addition will greatly increase the county’s inmate housing capacity, bringing the jail up to 572 beds.
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LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted on May 6 to replace the county’s primary correctional facility with a new two-tower structure.
UNIONTOWN, Pa. — More than 100 correctional officers, union leaders, county officials and supporters rallied at the Fayette County Courthouse on April 11 to push for the construction of a new prison. Members of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), which represents some 70 correctional officers employed at the current Fayette County Prison, organized the gathering.
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KALAMAZOO, Mich. — The second of two major expansions to the Kalamazoo County Jail is now on track for a June 2014 opening. The first 75,000-square-foot addition to the main jail structure opened in spring 2013, adding more than 90 cells to the chronically crowded facility.
CONCORD, N.H. — Site work will begin this summer on the New Hampshire Correctional Facility for Women. The new prison will replace an aging Goffstown facility that the state has leased for more than two decades. The decision was announced in late February, 20 years after the state was first ordered to provide housing equity to female inmates.
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