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Discrete Event Simulation of Jail Operations in Pursuit of Organizational Culture Change

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Abstract

Justice facilities such as jails are complex adaptive systems. They are people-driven, whether by the organizational culture of those that operate them, or by inmate culture. The development of organizational culture is organic and based on buy-in at all levels, or the lack thereof. Organizational culture evolves, including in response to attempted interventions from within or without. Physical and electronic security’s relationship to detention operations and detainee supervision involves similar dynamics.

In this paper, we explore jail operations. We model human use of a housing unit and associated support spaces via discrete-event simulation. We simulate this system to understand the capacity and limits on human use of building spaces. We explore how this sociotechnical system responds when stressed. We thereby validate the design within limits that correspond to planned operational capacity. The goal of the research is to design spaces and environments that support improved outcomes via improvements in organizational culture.

We introduce the specifics of jail operations via this model while exploring the full range of applications for this type of simulation in the built environment.

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  1. Urbahn Architects, PLLC, 306 W. 37th St, 9th Fl, New York, NY, 10018, USA

    Hugh D. Lester

  2. Decision Analytics, LLC, Tampa, FL, USA

    Martin J. Miller

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Open University of Cyprus, Latsia, Cyprus

    Sokratis Katsikas

  2. IMT Atlantique, Brest, France

    Frédéric Cuppens

  3. IMT Atlantique, Brest, France

    Nora Cuppens

  4. University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece

    Costas Lambrinoudakis

  5. University of the Aegean, Mytilene, Greece

    Christos Kalloniatis

  6. University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    John Mylopoulos

  7. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Annie Antón

  8. University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece

    Stefanos Gritzalis

  9. Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Frank Pallas

  10. Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, Germany

    Jörg Pohle

  11. Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

    Angela Sasse

  12. Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark

    Weizhi Meng

  13. University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK

    Steven Furnell

  14. Télécom SudParis, Evry, France

    Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro

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Building section

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Dayroom, indoor recreation, and contact visitation

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Services mall

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NYC jail simulation

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Detainee movement goal states

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Logjammed detainee movement

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Detainee controlled movement

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Key performance indicators

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Housing tower concept, view 1

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Housing tower concept, view 2

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Dayroom to indoor recreation interior elevation, view 1

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Indoor recreation to dayroom interior elevation, view 2

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Lester, H.D., Miller, M.J. (2020). Discrete Event Simulation of Jail Operations in Pursuit of Organizational Culture Change. In: Katsikas, S., et al. Computer Security. CyberICPS SECPRE SPOSE ADIoT 2019 2019 2019 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11980. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42048-2_20

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