Kansas City, Missouri, has launched a new Department of Community Safety, a reorganization intended to bring together violence prevention, corrections, rehabilitation and reentry functions under a single umbrella as the city advances plans for a new detention facility.
Construction is progressing on a new temporary, modular jail in Kansas City, Mo., after local officials approved an additional $3.83 million in funding for the project last week.
Construction has begun on a new and improved Jackson County Detention Center to replace the county’s current downtown facility.
St. Louis-based general contracting firm Integrate Construction Partners has started construction on a new $11.5 million government center for the City of Eureka.
A ribbon-cutting and opening ceremony will be held on July 17 for the new Jackson Police Station in Jackson.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic Cape Girardeau County’s new courthouse did not open on it scheduled date of April 1.
JE Dunn Construction is partnering with DeWitt & Associates, Inc. to manage the construction of the Greene County Jail expansion project.
Shipping containers and semi-trailers have also caught on in the industry of incarceration: In at least five countries, shipping containers have held inmates.
Justice facility construction projects are complicated on many different levels. They are usually political minefields that must be navigated carefully to avoid public dissatisfaction, there are many stakeholders involved, and oftentimes a crisis is on hand or looming on the horizon.
The plan to build a new jail in Franklin County, Pa., was not exempt from any of the common hurdles, but a carefully planned strategy avoided any major problems while maintaining a high level of public support.
It was built to confine the most troubled adolescents in the Pennsylvania criminal justice system, but designed to let the inmates perceive themselves as students.
Recognizing longtime and emerging industry leaders.
Winners announced at annual Corrections Summit.
