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| Iowa Students Create Haven for Correctional Staff |
| By correctionalnews.com |
| Published: 07/24/2014 |
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AMES, Iowa — Thanks to a group of Iowa State University landscape architecture students, and Assistant Professor of landscape architecture, Julie Stevens, Iowa Correctional Institute for Women (ICIW) staff members no longer have to take their work stress home. Stevens and nine students are designing and constructing an outdoor decompression area specifically for correctional officers and staff adjacent to the ICIW administration building. The new open air space will give correctional staff a place to relax and take breaks throughout their shifts. Stevens and the students developed the project after completing a series of outdoor classrooms at the ICIW in 2013, during which time the facility was undergoing significant expansion and modernization. "During shift changes, the correctional officers stood in the parking lot next to their cars, talking to each other about their shifts," Stevens said in a release. "They'd stand there for 45 minutes just to decompress and chat — so they wouldn't have to take the day's stressors home with them." Read More. |
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