My work has had considerable policy impacts in several countries, encouraging prison services and corrections departments to see prisons and prisoners through a rehabilitation lens as opposed to one focused on punishment. I have been interviewed for BBC Radio 4’s The Art of Now on ‘The architecture of incarceration’ and The Design Dimension. My research has featured in many media outlets, including the Guardian, Independent, Financial Times, Telegraph, Monoclemagazine and The Conversation. Barry Endowed Memorial Lecture in Criminology at the University of Melbourne (2016), I’ve given keynotes at International Corrections & Prisons Association (ICPA), Euro-Pris and Informa Prison Planning & Design conferences. In addition to being invited to give many plenaries at academic conferences, including the British Society of Criminology annual conference (2013, 2018), ANZSOC (2016), and the prestigious John V. I have published 33 academic articles and book chapters on prison architecture, design and technology and am currently writing a book which draws on my experiences of custodial design around the world. Originally posted by Grey (original poster)I have held Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) research grants totalling £1.3million to study the built environment of the prison and its potential to rehabilitate offenders, in addition to a small grant awarded by the Foundation for the Sociology of Health & Illness to study trauma-informed design for women’s prisons.
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I wrote a guide for PA awhile back that still explains alot of the basics to run an efficient, safe, and productive prison.įeel free to check it out when you have time and/or let me know if you have any other questions. IF done right, you can have a big Canteen, with 1 supporting Kitchen) on each side of the road that can efficiently feed all your prisoners quickly. If they are too busy fighting the other prisoners just to get to their seat instead of eating, your efficiency will suffer. Make your tables/benches have a little more space around them (faster prisoners can get their food and get to eating, faster their food need is handled. This makes those sections more efficient.ħ - Canteens. This keep some of them occupied and happy, but even better your prisoners will marvel at the new super-clean prison they are calling home and it will help keep them happy.Ħ - put the morgue in the back of the infirmary (same building). That way when they are in their cells, but not sleeping, they are taking care of an extra need.ĥ - Also consider adding 1-2 small janitor closets to the outside of each cell block and add prisoners to the rooms to clean your prison for you. To keep your prisoners happier (especially as you grow larger and more problems pop up) I would consider adding some entertainment (tv maybe) in each cell. Faster the workers get the clean clothes delivered, the faster your prisoners are satisfied with their clean stuff.Ĥ - nice cell blocks. That way as your laundry workers don't have to take all day getting to your farthest cells to get them clean clothes. You can also add to that building as you go to add more room later.basically slowly advancing from a small prison into a massive one without letting prisoners outside.unless they get paroled or die.ģ - Try and relocate your laundry to a more central area. It is easy to build a big building and then just add rooms/sections of whatever you need. Most of the time prisoners outside = problems (escape attempts, up to no good, etc.). This gives your prison an outer layer (aka: buffer zone) that is easier to setup dog patrols in (to find tunnels before prisoners get out), and it also provides good advance planning to show yourself how much room you have to work with (and if you need to re-adjust something on your outer layer of your prison (aka: a building needs to be a little bigger) you can always remove portions of your inner fence as needed.Ģ - if possible try and build anything that has prisoners in it indoors (obviously yard has to be outdoors, but you can always build a big building and have an open (outside) area inside the building to turn into a yard. 1 - Main suggestion, whenever starting any prison, would be to build a fence all the way around the map (barbed wire is good to start, plan on perimeter wall when you can afford it) and then about 2-4 spots inward from that fence build another one.