NCJ Number
157264
Date Published
1988
Length
117 pages
Annotation
This booklet on correctional architecture focuses on design guidelines, inmate housing, security, and rehabilitative specifications for prisons.
Abstract
The first section reviews the historical context of prisons and their design, beginning with prisons in Plato's ancient Greece, through medieval prisons, to contemporary prisons. The emphasis is on design style and types and how facility design reflects philosophies in correctional movements. A section on contemporary prisons addresses types of facilities (lock-ups, jails, correctional institutions, and community correctional centers), and analysis of basic plan types and forms. In another section, planning design guidelines focus on site selection; facility capacity; staff housing; site organization; furnishings; physical image; security standards for maximum, medium, and minimum grades; specifications for security; and compound security needs. Inmate housing is discussed in one section, with attention to interior cells (maximum security), exterior cells (medium security), inmate rooms, dormitories, space requirements, special housing, management needs, and area survey of inmate rooms from selected prisons. The concluding section considers visiting and its types; subjects covered are conjugal visiting, correctional programs, education of inmates, vocational training, recreation for inmates, and staff training program. Appended design illustrations of selected facilities from various countries, a 14-item bibliography, and 8 references