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.
Recidivism Reduction Campus Project Seeks to Repurpose Former Prison
Typically, when correctional facilities reach the end of their useful lifecycle, or are rendered obsolete by modern replacement facilities, the buildings are demolished and their sites are redeveloped for new purposes.
Building A Stronger New Mexico
When I became Cabinet Secretary of the New Mexico Corrections Department (NMCD) in 2019, I had already spent nearly two decades with the department, serving as a caseworker, probation and parole officer, unit manager, deputy warden and warden.
Washington, D.C. Seeks Industry Input on New Correctional Treatment Facility Annex Project
The D.C. Department of General Services, acting on behalf of the D.C. Department of Corrections, has launched an industry outreach process for the proposed D.C. Correctional Treatment Facility Annex project, a major capital program intended to replace aging detention infrastructure with a new, treatment- and reentry-focused complex.
New Mexico Corrections Department’s Tablet-Based Programming is Paying Off
In recent years, correctional systems across the country have expanded the use of digital tablets to increase access to rehabilitative and educational programming, strengthen connections with the outside world, reduce idleness among incarcerated populations, and as a result, more agencies are recognizing the significant benefits this technology can provide.
Ohio Department of Youth Services Recognizes Second Chance Month with Reentry-Centered Events
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.
Redefining Public Safety in Correctional Facilities: Beyond the False Choice
Justice System Partners’ Brian Lovins, Ph.D. challenges the false choice between security and rehabilitation, advocating for evidence-based design and operations that enhance safety by promoting human dignity and long-term success.
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.