Planning and Design Network

Aims:

• Be the primary international forum for planning and design knowledge and collaboration in corrections—bringing together practitioners, researchers and policymakers to share case studies, lessons learnt and emerging developments.
• Support the international corrections community through sharing of best practice correctional planning and design solutions through the Planning and Design Hub
• Champion design that improves outcomes—including safety, wellbeing and rehabilitation
• Reinforce the importance of pre-planning—questioning whether to build at all and aligning infrastructure with policy objectives.

Objectives:

• Assemble as many existing physical plant standards/guidelines that impact prison design as can be identified;
• Examine the “dozen” critical guidelines (e.g., space allocation per prisoner for sleeping) that every prison department should aim to achieve;
• Cross reference these critical guidelines with existing minimum standards;
• Identify how and where these guidelines could be included in the UN Minimum Rules;
• Assemble a catalogue of essential technology for consideration by:
  • Developed nations;
  • Developing nations, and;
  • Post-conflict/disaster conditions.
• Begin the preparation of a basic design guidelines document with examples for 3 (a, b, and c) above.