The Second Edition of ASTM Standards on Detention and Correctional Facilities is now available from ASTM International.  This new edition includes 14 key ASTM specifications, test methods, and practices for products used throughout the industry in the manufacture of doors, locks, and security systems for detention and correctional facilities.  It also includes the Hollow Metal Manufacturers Association Specification 863 for Detention Security Hollow Metal Doors and Frames.

Standards included in the new edition cover:

     •   Tool-resisting steel flat bars and shapes for security applications;
     •   Steel air ventilating grille units for detention areas;
     •   Selection of security control systems;
     •   Fire test response characteristics of cushioning materials;
     •   Detention locks for swinging doors;
     •   Chain-link barrier systems; and
     •   Physical assault on vertical fixed barriers.
    
Copies of ASTM Standards on Detention and Correctional Facilities, Second Edition, are available for $89 in both print and CD-ROM versions (175 pages, soft cover, 8” x 11”; print ISBN:  978-0-8031-4493-4; print stock # DETENTION06; CD-ROM ISBN:  978-0-8031-4494-1; CD-ROM stock # DETENTIONCD06) from ASTM Customer Service (phone: 610/832-9585; fax: 610/832-9555; https://www.astm.org/contact/), or online at www.astm.org.

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