Some of the most important jail furniture correctional facilities can invest in are stainless steel security accessories and plumbing fixtures.  They feature antiligature characteristics essential to reducing inmate violence and vandalism.

It is important that jail furniture be designed with this in mind.  If inmates are successful in acting out their anger, their anger intensifies and dangerous situations escalate very quickly.  

The three things that correctional facilities have to constantly watch for are vandalism, suicide attempts, and weapons manufacture.  Some inmates will try to kill themselves by hanging or cutting themselves.  Others will try to kill others by making weapons out of metal pieces of furniture.  Vandalism is often only a distraction to get guards to lower their guard and start a riot.

To reduce the number of these incidents, jail furniture was eventually engineered with high security features that specifically address these issues.  Products include security book shelving, standard shelving, towel hooks, holders for toothbrushes, soap dishes, urinals, and toilet lavatory combo units.

All of these many products are engineered with the reduction of self-inflicted harm, vandalism, and inmate violence.  They are also engineered in ways that let architects adapt them to any type of jail.  Their stainless steel construction makes them durable and highly sanitary as well.

These specialized Jail furniture products all feature basic Antiligature characteristics that address the major security issues discussed in this article.

• Welded seams are ground smooth so inmates cannot break off pieces of metal.
• The edges of toilets, sinks, urinals, and shower heads are smooth to prevent self cutting.
• Hooks break under the weight of inmates who try to hang themselves.
• Most security plumbing fixtures are made with fewer parts, so there are fewer opportunities to break something of and turn it into a weapon.
• Urinals, lavatories, and toilets can take thousands of pounds of inmate force.    
• Plumbing fixtures are made with water control and flood prevention in mind to stop inmates from flooding their cells.

Detention centers who use these jail furniture products have seen the following improvements. 

1. Inmates will calm down quicker when the furniture they try to break is stronger than them.
2. Inmates who try to kill themselves break off hooks and are eventually discovered by guards.
3. It is so hard to make weapons out of these fixtures that when inmates try to do so they are almost always caught in the act.

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