By Stephen Carter
(03/21/2011)
(03/21/2011)
In the past several months I have had the sobering experience of re-examining bed-space projections that I helped create in the mid-2000s.
By Stephen A. Carter
(11/24/2010)
(11/24/2010)
The challenges of stabilization and incarceration following conflict and crisis.
By Stephen A. Carter
(07/28/2010)
(07/28/2010)
Rarely are designers required to consider an alternate use of a criminal justice facility beyond a projected 30-year life span, even though the current tilt towards sustainable buildings suggests just that.
By Stephen A. Carter
(04/16/2010)
(04/16/2010)
Perhaps no state has spent more money to evaluate options for improving the medical services for inmates than California.
By Stephen A. Carter
(03/25/2010)
(03/25/2010)
When Bad Things Happen to Good People: By now, miles of videotape depicting the destruction in Haiti are imprinted in our minds.
By Stephen A. Carter
(12/30/2009)
(12/30/2009)
Happy New Year! It’s hard to imagine that we were so concerned about Y2K and the simultaneous meltdown of global ATMs a decade ago when now it’s what is not in the bank’s vaults that seems to be of greater concern.
By Stephen A. Carter
(12/04/2009)
(12/04/2009)
Winston Churchill reputedly declared, “If you want to see the soul of a society, look into its prisons.”
By Stephen A. Carter
(12/04/2009)
(12/04/2009)
We have this agreement around my home and office that we don’t discuss the R-word: retirement. In the solitude of my own thoughts, anxiety about exercising my age-gifted perk grips me momentarily, but soon passes as I approach yet another TSA screening lane.
By Steven A. Carter
(12/04/2009)
(12/04/2009)
For the correctional component of the criminal justice system, many examples of protective exclusion exist. Every state and local correctional system recognizes the need for a protective custody capability.
