Making room for inmates
Southeastern Mass. prisons and jails are over capacity, and officials are bracing for even bigger shortages.

Bunk Beds Help Solve Jail's Crowding Woes
The Wyandotte County jail is dealing with its overcrowding problem by using a solution found in many homes.

Interior design news & notes: Bunk beds; cinder blocks; and another take on Milan
A room full of bunk beds can still have style.

Grandparents create fun spaces just for the kids
Phyllis Lackey’s grandchildren get to play and sleep in this room with built-in bunk beds and a Pottery Barn kitchen. / Larry McCormack / The Tennessean

Woman tells story of Holocaust survival
Triple deck bunk beds with two people and one blanket on a straw filled mattress — 600 people in a barracks. Long wooden benches with holes cut into them called toilets. No toilet paper, no soap, almost never water. There were no trees, no flowers, never saw a blade of grass. Wagons filled with dead, naked bodies that looked more like firewood than human remains. This is part of Marion ...

Federal oversight of California's prison inmate health care may end
Triple tiered bunk beds at Solano Prison in 2006. A federal judge may transition control over the state prison healthcare system back to the state after seven years of oversight.

Legislative analyst: Prison construction not needed to end federal oversight
Triple tiered bunk beds at Solano Prison in 2006. According to the state's legislative analyst, California could end federal court oversight of prison healthcare without costly new construction.

Palm Coast man turns yard into 'redneck garden'
Pete and Rosie Myckaniuk have a most unusual backyard. Nestled amid the lush ferns, palms and brightly colored flowers are a toilet and a bathtub. Oh, and on the other side there are discarded frames from an old futon and bunk beds.

Hope floats
Phulder is short for his age — seven or eight, he can’t remember. So he can’t reach the clotheslines, barely five feet off the ground. He jumps awkwardly a few times before the clothes are hung successfully.

Casper's Seton House adds two properties, increases housing options
On Friday night, they were empty. They were just walls, a ceiling and a floor. In each of the seven two-bedroom units, there were three sets of bunk beds and a sofa bed. Seven safe places to sleep. There was an oven that worked, a refrigerator and a dishwasher that had never been used in the kitchen. There were new sheets on the beds and clean towels in the spacious bathroom.