Safety and durability are key concerns in custodial settings such as prisons and detention centres so ensuring furniture includes anti-ligature features and heavily weighted options to reduce misuse is important in creating safer, more human-centred custodial environments.
We design and manufacture strong, safe furniture for us in prisons, young offenders institutions, detention centres and other custodial environments.
Our prison furniture ranges combine safety with aesthetics, protecting people from harm, while helping to create a rehabilitative environment.
Here are some of the features which make our furniture safe and dependable for custodial environments:
Hanging or strangulation is the most common method of suicide in custody (used in approximately 92% of cases), so minimising ligature risks is a key area of concern. Our reduced-ligature ranges are designed to maximise safety in custodial environments.
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In situations of violence and aggression, furniture can pose a risk of being used as a weapon, either by being picked up and swung/thrown or by being broken into smaller parts (e.g. a chair leg) and being used as a striking weapon. The heavily weighted chairs in our Ryno range are designed to be near-impossible to pick up, protecting people from injury.
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Concealment (also known as stashing) of contraband is a significant safety risk in custodial environments, with drugs or sharp objects being hidden. Our anti-concealment products are designed to minimise concealment opportunities and make inspection safer for staff.
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One of the things that prison staff and residents always struggled with was ensuring adequate privacy for families to have meaningful conversations.
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"Pineapple helped us get the balance between decency and security just right...It’s been incredible watching children’s faces light up when they walk into the hall filled with so many bright colours."
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"We had a real issue with visitors and prisoners rearranging the furniture to get more intimate. The weight and design of the new furniture prevents this."
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Products from our Ryno dining tables and chairs were perfect for meeting these complex requirements while avoiding an 'institutional' aesthetic.
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"The installation of Ryno chairs and tables in the visits complex has served to both improve safety and security whilst providing an uplifting and visually pleasing environment for visitors and prisoners."
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"You can see it on the families’ faces when they walk in... it’s got the feel-good factor."
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"The Ryno lounge furniture gives the visits hall a fresh and contemporary new look without security being compromised."
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