Correctional Facility Design and Detailing
by Peter Charles Krasnow, Bo Parker
Architects Know Best
August 12, 2001
Peter Krasnow is an architect with 25 years hands-on experience in designing and
executing correctional structures. He starts with an overview of the Justice process and
system, goes on to differentiate jails from prisons and spends a lot of time discussing material
organization. Now continuing to Planning and Design Principles (inventorying personnel
needs and types of settings desired), he talks about facility operations costs including salaries
and benefits. He is extremely well-versed in the types of programs and their architectural
needs. Subchapters including physical plant and maintenance. He includes basic blueprints of
true-to-life real prisons and jails for which he has had to deal with. Everything is here:
phones, electronics, acoustics - you name it. The Glossary and Bibliography are worth
reading, too.
Get one for yourself if you are in any way involved with deciding on, budgeting for,
managing or investigating any given prison or jail. Your time and money investment will be
very worthwhile.