Seasoned field personnel – have you ever had a new hire ask to come to work in a tank top, shorts, and sandals, leaving you to explain what the appropriate clothing for the job is? It’s happened to us all. This emphasizes the need to be properly prepared and trained for whatever field situation [...]
Initiating Custodial Responsibilities While Protecting Inmates and Staff Having designed over 150 correctional facilities over the past 40 years, our team at L.R. Kimball remains focused on facility designs that support safe, efficient and effective operations. One correctional facility design feature we like to include has a variety of names but [...]
A performing arts center is one of the most challenging and rewarding buildings that an architect will have the opportunity to design. It should celebrate its community’s commitment to the arts and requires an architectural expression that is not only efficient, but also presents a memorable civic presence. Shippensburg University, Luhrs Theater [...]
THE SITUATION When Hurricane Katrina pushed across the Gulf of Mexico in 2005, it struck particularly hard at Plaquemines Parish, south of the city of New Orleans. The storm caused massive damage and destroyed the jail. Congress quickly appropriated supplemental help for the region, allocating funds through the Federal Emergency Management [...]
The CERT Team at Franklin County Jail in Chambersburg, PA conducts a training exercise in their Training Cell. Professional corrections practitioners understand the critical need that continual staff training plays in maintaining skills, competences and operational readiness. All training, including the very practical methods of inmate and detainee movement needs to be [...]
Construction was recently completed for 11 miles of new, limited-access, four lane highway for US 219 in Somerset County, from the northern terminus of the Meyersdale Bypass to the southern end of the existing US 219 in Somerset, PA. Improving this transportation corridor should help make the Somerset/Johnstown area more accessible to visitors and [...]
On May 20th, the Williamsport Regional Airport was receiving a very high-profile individual. The President was making his way to the Montoursville area; holding a rally where more than 15,000 people attended. As final preparations were made prior to the POTUS’s visit, L.R. Kimball had two engineers on the scene. They were tasked with [...]
The terms Jail and Prison are often used incorrectly and interchangeably by the public and media however, they are very different. So, what are the major differentiators between the two? For starters, a Jail is a facility used to hold or detain individuals that have been arrested and are being held pending bail, plea [...]