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Correctional Facility Design and Detailing

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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.

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