This
project resulted in a new Adult Local Detention Facility.
Included are administrative offices, staff training
facilities, video court arraignment, full service detention
medical facilities, a full service kitchen and detention
cells to house 672 inmates in a podular design.
The jail design provides indirect supervision and direct
observation of inmates by staff at all times. Appropriate
levels of security, ranging from minimum to maximum
security, are provided through a combination of passive
and active systems. Passive systems are inherent in
the physical layout of the building design and include
features such as strategic locations of control points,
exercise facilities, observation and visitation spaces.
Active systems utilize the state-of-the-art in door
locks, cameras, communication systems and personal duress
systems.
A total of four housing pods will enable staff to classify
and segregate security level type populations. Inside
the pods, cell configuration has been designed in small
cell block clusters to enable the correctional staff
to implement an aggressive classification policy and
maximize security, safety and inmate control. The basic
housing unit is one level with a mezzanine. The pod
is round with individual cells on the outer perimeter,
dayrooms in the middle and pod security in the center.
The podular design allows a free, unobstructed view
between pod security and each individual cell. There
are two beds per cell, twelve cells per cell block and
eight cell blocks per pod. Unit G is the maximum security
pod with only one inmate per cell.
There is medical housing with negative-pressure air
flow cells for inmates that need medical isolation because
of injury or contagious, infectious disease. Up to 40
inmates may be housed in medical cells. Intake/booking
allows for 24 single occupancy cells.
The central building area houses the support
services for each of the housing units (pods). This
section was designed to support up to seven housing
units (pods) to allow for future growth by adding additional
pods without increasing the support services.
The jail is a 240,905 square feet facility situated
on a 10.64 acre site. The facility was completed in
March of 2001 after a 24 month construction period.
