Where Public Health Meets Public Safety: What Healthcare Design Can Teach Us About Modern Justice Facilities
For decades, justice facility planning centered on security, operational efficiency and durability.
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From Containment to Continuity, Part II: How Care, Reintegration and Workforce Resilience Turn Correctional Design Into a Public Health Strategy
Designing correctional facilities as public health infrastructure requires more than improving conditions inside housing units.
From Containment to Continuity, Part I: Why Correctional Facilities Must Be Designed as Public Health Infrastructure
For much of the 20th century, correctional facilities were designed as instruments of containment — hardened, inward-facing environments optimized for control, efficiency and separation from civic life.
ACA Appoints New Director of Correctional Health
Mariel A. Marlow, PhD, MPH, has joined the American Correctional Association (ACA) as its Director of Correctional Health.
New Report Addresses Decarceration During Pandemic
Where needed to adhere to public health guidelines and mitigate the spread of COVID-19, authorities should use their discretion to minimize incarceration in prisons and jails—and facilitate testing, quarantine, social supports, and individualized reentry plans for those released, according to a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.