Correctional Facility Design and Detailing [Hardcover]

Peter Krasnow (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 1997 | ISBN-10: 0070361738 | ISBN-13: 978-0070361737 | Edition: 1

Now you can acquire the savvy needed to capitalize on the boom in correctional facility construction and renovation! This guide offers you a one-stop reference on designing, detailing, and specifying correctional facilities of all kinds. Ranging from rural, campus-like settings to urban high-rises, the book covers all major components of typical jails and prisons, including inmate housing, support functions, and security requirements ... features an easy-to-use, graphical approach based on modules ... and presents a wide range of case studies of both new and remodeled projects.

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Get the Hands-On Expertise Required for the Design and Renovation of All Types of Jails and Prisons. Now you can acquire the savvy needed to capitalize on the boom in correctional facility construction and renovation! This practical reference offers you comprehensive ideas for designing, detailing, and specifying correctional facilities of all kinds. Ranging from rural settings to urban high-rises, the book takes you systematically through architectural plans for building first-rate facilities. You'll find: Complete coverage of all major facilities of typical jails & prisons, including inmate housing, support functions, and security requirements. Graphical approach based on modules, with photographs, details, specifications, and design issues shown together for easy use; A wide range of informative case studies of both new and remodeled projects. Extensively illustrated, this practical resource also gives you design solutions for administration and public areas. . .traffic control. . .intake and release. . .communications and information systems. . .armory and locksmith services. . .records management. . .engineering and plant maintenance. . .and more.

About the Author

Peter Krasnow is Vice President for justice architecture at Daniel, Mann, Johnson & Mendenhall Architects (DMJM) and Engineers in New York City. With over twenty-three years of experience in the design and construction of correctional facilities, he is active in the American Institute of Architects' Committee on Architecture for Justice, the American Correctional Association, and the American Jail Association.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 373 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 1 edition (September 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0070361738
• ISBN-13: 978-0070361737
• Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 8.7 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,202,220 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Architects Know Best, August 12, 2001

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Nancy Moran (Baltimore, Maryland USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Correctional Facility Design and Detailing (Hardcover)

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.

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Book Available for Correctional Designers, June 8, 2005

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Global Security (New Jersey) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Correctional Facility Design and Detailing (Hardcover)

This is a fantastic book for any Architect who has to get involved in designing Correctional type facilities. After the escape of Pablo Escobar, the head of the Medellin Drug Cartel, I was hired by the Minister of Justice in Colombia, SA as his Security Advisor. I had to utilize local architects to design prisons and none of them had ever designed a prison before. Had Peter Krasnow's book been available then, it would have made my life easier. Correctional Facility Design and Detailing is a "must read" book for anyone involved in Corrections.

Mr. Krasnow not only provides the necessary design details but he also gives a lot of insight into security concepts and inmate management techniques used today. No wonder Mr. Krasnow is one of the leading Criminal Justice Architects in the world! He's not afraid to share his knowledge.

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Mr. Krasnow on my Internet Radio Show "Global Security" on www.voice.voiceamerica.com. We not only discussed his book but many other philosphies affecting Criminal Justice Design.

Vic Plessner, Global Security Consultant www.vhpconsult.com