Ligature Resistant Solid Surface Sink
Behavioral Safety has a patented CS730 Ligature Resistant Solid Surface Sink for behavioral health and high-risk patient bathrooms. The sink comes with an anti-fungal solid surface, and is contoured to…
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Broomfield Detention Center is Shaping the Future of Correctional Technology
For a firsthand look at real-world applications of technology in correctional settings, Correctional News toured the Broomfield Detention Center (BDC), a municipally run jail located in the northwest area of Denver.
DuPage County’s JUST Program Uses Activities, Therapy and Design Choices to Reduce Recidivism
Explore how the JUST Program at DuPage County offers a groundbreaking path to rehabilitation through trauma-informed care, chess therapy and normative design—helping inmates rebuild their lives from the inside out.
How Human-Centric Normative Design Can Balance and Transform Carceral Spaces
There has long been a stigma associated with jails and prisons as being dungeon-like environments where people are stripped of not only their freedom but also their dignity.
Shannon Herklotz
Shannon Herklotz has been appointed executive chief of detention for the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office in Tarrant County, Texas.
Tutor Perini Corp. and O&G Industries Inc. Joint Venture Selected as Manhattan Jail Facility Proposer
Los Angeles-based Tutor Perini Corp. and East Coast-based O&G Industries Inc. have formed a joint venture and, in collaboration with the American architecture firm HOK, have been selected as the apparent proposer for the Manhattan Jail Facility design-build project.
Keeping the ‘Community’ in the Women’s Community Correctional Center
Including the word “rehabilitation” in its name was important to the Hawaii Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR), communicating how the state views its relationship toward inmates in custody.
New York Makes Plans to Replace Rikers Island Jail Complex
The City of New York has plans to replace detention facilities at Rikers Island with four modern, community-based jails throughout the city.