NCJ Number
141447
Journal
Large Jails Network Bulletin Volume: 1 Issue: 4 Dated: (March 1990) Pages: 10-11
Date Published
1990
Length
2 pages
Annotation
The National Institute of Corrections' Jail Center offers two programs, Planning of New Institutions (PONI) and How to Open a New Institution (HONI), to help plan and open new jails.
Abstract
The PONI program has three phases: consultants conduct a 1-day meeting in the participating community; a 5-day training session develops skills for the long-range planning process; and a seminar is held to train teams composed of the sheriff, jail administrator or corrections agency director, and the construction project manager or architect in the skills needed to monitor the construction project from beginning to end. Topics covered in the seminar include communicating with architects, project management, the facility transition process, and life cycle costing. The HONI program offers technical assistance in the transition process. Two consultants with transition expertise provide 3 days of onsite training to the transition team. HONI also includes instruction in such areas as general project organization, scenario development, policy and procedure development, the conduct of jail staff training, developing a master schedule of facility activities, assessing staffing needs, and logistics of moving inmates.