| Title |
A Study on the Architectural Characteristics and Standards of Correctional Facility in the USA focused on the Prison Architecture |
| Keywords |
Correctional Facility ; Prison ; Housing ; Security Classification ; Standards |
| Abstract |
The role of correctional facilities is to protect society from unruly or dangerous persons who have broken the law and have been sentenced to incarceration by the courts. The physical environment of the modern correctional facility has much effort on the rehabilitation of the inmate. This study is aimed to offer the basic architectural data and to suggest desirable direction for the inmate in correctional facility designs, through the investigation of the American instances. Especially, the architectural characteristics and standards of the prison architecture are important to analyze in this paper.
As the result of study, the correction facilities in the USA have always sought to reinforce correctional philosophy and practice. Administrative standards of correctional facility in the USA have been developed by the American Correctional Association(ACA). This standards are the basic threshold for facilities where are safe and humane and essential human and civil rights are respected. However, most of domestic correctional facilities have been thought of the role which is only the confinement of inmates. A domestic institution also is considered achieving a more normal or humane environment for inmates like American instances. |