Design – Construction – Operations
HONOLULU, Hawaii — After two inmates escaped from Hawaii’s Oahu Community Correctional Center (OCCC) in the span of a week, attention has been refocused on the state’s increasingly crowded correctional population.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Following the May 13 release of Governor Jerry Brown’s revised state budget, advocacy groups are speaking out against Brown’s plan to funnel $500 million into jail expansion. Groups like Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) are protesting the potential multi-billion dollar cuts to recidivism-reducing programs, and investment in new correctional construction.
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LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted on May 6 to replace the county’s primary correctional facility with a new two-tower structure.
UNIONTOWN, Pa. — More than 100 correctional officers, union leaders, county officials and supporters rallied at the Fayette County Courthouse on April 11 to push for the construction of a new prison. Members of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), which represents some 70 correctional officers employed at the current Fayette County Prison, organized the gathering.
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LINCOLN, Neb. — Consultants hired by the state of Nebraska to tackle the growing correctional overcrowding problem have delivered a new master plan that relies heavily on construction and expansion.
CONCORD, N.H. — Site work will begin this summer on the New Hampshire Correctional Facility for Women. The new prison will replace an aging Goffstown facility that the state has leased for more than two decades. The decision was announced in late February, 20 years after the state was first ordered to provide housing equity to female inmates.
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JESSUP, Md. — After standing for more than 130 years, structural demolition has begun on the infamous maximum security Maryland House of Correction. The aging and inadequate facility saw a dramatic increase in violence in recent years, prompting correctional officials to close it in 2007.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Fifteen California counties will soon benefit from a $500 million investment in correctional construction projects. As part of Governor Jerry Brown’s continued realignment initiative, funds will help improve inmate education, rehabilitation and medical care across the state.
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