IPIC2024-PID053 by Rob Fisch and Stefan LoBuglio

"Right-Sizing" Correctional Facilities

Authors

Rob Fisch

Principal/ Justice Sector Leader, DLR Group, United States

Rob Fisch is a Principal and Justice Sector Leader at DLR Group, Architects, Planners and Engineers. He leads planning and design for some of the firm’s major corrections projects. Over the past 33 years, Mr. Fisch has served as a consultant to judges, prosecutors, legislators and corrections administrators, as well as other justice system stakeholders. He is widely recognized for his analytical and cognitive ability to develop a sound foundation for consensus-based needs assessments, master plans and facility solutions. His experience encompasses courts, corrections and juvenile justice. His most recent adult corrections projects are a “Re-Imagining” of a large urban jail in Pittsburgh, and a comprehensive plan to close New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex to be replaced with four new urban jails across the City. In the juvenile justice realm, he is currently leading design efforts for three juvenile detention campuses in New Jersey and planning for a new model for NYC’s Horizon juvenile detention complex. He also has extensive courthouse planning and design experience.
Mr. Fisch has a BA in Environmental Design from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is a Certified Planner by the American Planning Association and is also LEED accredited from the U.S. Green Buildings Council. He has lectured extensively at planning, design and security conferences in the US and abroad, and has been cited in various printed and electronic media on the topic of justice facility planning and design.

Stefan LoBuglio

Principal, Justice Innovations, United States

Stefan LoBuglio has worked in corrections for over three decades as a practitioner, policy advocate, researcher, and consultant. At the federal level in the US, he oversaw the National Reentry Resource Center which provides technical assistance to hundreds of public safety agencies and non-profit organizations implementing federally funded reentry programs. In the states of Maryland and Massachusetts, he has served on gubernatorial correctional reform committees. In Montgomery County (Greater DC area) and in Suffolk County (Boston, MA), he oversaw pre-release facilities and programs for local correctional agencies for over 20 years. Currently, he consults and aids jurisdictions in the US and internationally to reduce incarceration through the implementation of evidence-based practices. He is an active researcher and has published and presented his studies. In 2007, Stefan received his doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He earned an MA in public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a BS in mechanical engineering from Duke University.

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