Plans and Illustrations of Prisons and Reformatories
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Plans and Illustrations of Prisons and Reformatories
Prisons -- Design and construction; Prisons -- United States; Reformatories -- United States
The administration building has on the ground floor the warden’s
office on one side of the hall, and the clerical office on the other,
and in the rear, a long corridor which has been called the “guards’
corridor” but which will be used largely for the intercourse between
the prisoners and the public. On the second floor of the administration
building are quarters for a hospital and some rooms for the officers.
It will be noted that the officers’ rooms on the second floor and
the guards’ rooms on the third floor are accessible from the public
space, but the hospital is accessible only from the prison side. In
other words, the hospital is in the fortified portion and the guards’
quarters in the unfortified. The main stairway goes up to the third
floor of the administration building, devoted entirely to guards’
rooms, and these were made large enough so that two guards could occupy
one room, and while this is not generally advisable it was a wise
forethought because some of the rooms have already been used in this
way.
HOSPITAL AND RECEPTION BUILDING
The hospital quarters are small, because in the prison with the
individual room a man who is sick is better off in his cell than he
would be in a general hospital ward, and the men very frequently prefer
to stay by themselves.
The prisoners brought to the institution enter the bath and reception
building at the rear, where the process of their reception is as
follows:
[Illustration: ADMINISTRATION BUILDING--ENTRANCE SIDE]
They enter to the left, where they undress and bathe. Their clothes are
tied up in a bag, temporarily placed in a metal-lined closet, which
can be fumigated, and later taken to the general county farm laundry
and sterilized. After the prisoner has had his bath he goes into the
doctor’s office, where he is given a careful physical examination, and
here also are made the finger-print and other records of identification
which are very desirable from many points of view.
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