The importance of rehabilitation and reentry efforts to improve the outcomes and quality of life for formerly incarcerated individuals is well understood across the justice spectrum.
Nowadays, most correctional facility owners, operators and designers understand, on some level, how the built environment can affect outcomes.
The Hawk safe furniture line by Abecca is manufactured to ensure protection for service users and staff in correctional and specialty care environments, such as youth justice, corrections, forensic and high-risk mental health spaces.
As the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office prepares to rebuild its Vista Detention Facility — the oldest of the county’s seven jails — the project scope covers far more than just building and infrastructure modifications, including intentionally conceived transformations of programs and spaces that the county hopes will contribute to a systemwide culture change.
Leaders in Bucks County, Pa., held a ribbon-cutting ceremony at a newly completed residential treatment center intended to help justice-involved adults with serious mental illness and co-occurring substance use issues avoid or reduce time in custody.
On Feb. 8, during the final day of the American Correctional Association’s 2026 Winter Conference in Long Beach, Calif., attendees gathered for the annual Evolving Spaces: Creating Spaces that Work Symposium.
Gordon’s AcoustiCel™ Metal Plank Security Wall is designed specifically for high-security environments as well as medical and mental health applications.
Part I of this article on focused on how behavioral health facility planners balance safety and care considerations, and how embracing therapeutic design principles instead of reinforcing punitive environments can improve outcomes for inmates and staff alike.
Across the country, healthcare systems are increasingly called upon to respond to behavioral health crises manifesting within correctional environments.
Over the past year, as news on projects, people, products and other developments in the corrections field unfolded, Correctional News was there to cover not only what transpired, but what impacts those events could have the industry as a whole.
Recognizing longtime and emerging industry leaders.
Winners announced at annual Corrections Summit.
