Correctional facility offers restorative space for staff

摘要

It turns out that not only divers need to decompress. Prison staff, who manage an incarcerated population and must constantly be vigilant of any security breach that could jeopardize their safety, also need to decompress.As a result, nine landscape-architecture students with Iowa State University are building an outdoor decompression area for correctional officers and staff. The seed of the idea germinated last summer when Julie Stevens, assistant professor of landscape architecture with the university, and her students were building outdoor classrooms for the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women as part of its $68-million modernization and expansion project.