Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1910-05-15 | Page 28 | Fine County Jail Almost Completed

I INE pus COUNTY JAil ALMOST COMPLETED Sheriffs Will Be Shown Most Modern Bastile in West SOME OME CELLS HAVE BATHS IS SANITARY AND CONVENIENT THROUGHOUT When ben the Intermountain Sheriffs meets in Salt Satt Lake in an lual Convention tho the third week in rune Tune Sheriff Sherin J 3 C Sharp will be able 0 o Show the 50 visiting sheriffs the tho inest finest and most modern county jail wilding in the west Under the contract the jail build bulldog ng og company must have the building completed and ready to turn over to he county commissioners on June 15 16 L X S superintendent of the tho Work pork says that there is not the tho slightest doubt that the building and rounds grounds will be fully completed by that time Thirty of ot oo the steel cells on n they the lower floor have been installed and the Steel It el for 10 cells to be bEs put in is either on the ground on en route and 11 arrive by the time the me men are ready to handle it Aside from the main maili room where the steel cells will be located work is completed The office matrons room hospital ward and other rooms are Completed There are six private cells with baths The fixtures are areas as fine tine as in any an home in Salt Lake Electric light and sewer connections are all in As the county has given the Telluride Power connections company a franchise arE art made so that in the event of that company enteritis entering the city with its lines there will be no trouble In con connecting connectinG netting up with the county Jail build buildIng building Ing The kitchen laundry main dining room and bakery in the basement are arc about completed The bars to the cells are all tool proof They ey are made of five layers of steel which will resist the hardest tempered steel saws In point of ot security and resist resistance resistance ance ce against jail jaU breakers every modern safeguard safe Is being Installed As s soon as the cells in tho the main room are completed the apparatus for ope operating operating operating rating the doors will be Installed This feature will be so o arranged that i the jailer will be he able abl to open andl and close any combination of cell doors door from a lobby tobby near the office Sheriff There will be no dungeon Sharp was against that th t feature as ashe ashe ashe he says It is inhuman Several cells cell that have been arranged however so the light may be shut off for cases where solitary confinement is found necessary Baths Bathe for Prisoners There will be four tour shower baths inthe in inthe inthe the main corridors and the building will be sanitary in every respect for forthe forthe There is a room in the basement the he reception of all prisoners This be betaken betaken betaken will be the first room roam they will taken to upon their arrival Here they will leave leae their clothing in a fumigating ing room take a bath and be supplied supplied sup JUp plied with clean linen before they are even registered Another Ano r new feature te arrange arrangement arra e ement ment of ot three booths in a room di dl directly dIrectly north of f jail jill office attorneys and others may confer with prisoners These booths are provided with a stool electric light and a place to write There is an opening thred feet square to another booth directly opposite and leading to the thee main cor corridor corridor corridor of the jail The rhe opening ope g is dou doubly doubly doubly bly screened so that while the prison prisoner er and the person who Is la talking tio to him may hold confidential lion tion nothing can n be handed banded to the prisoner The bullpen will hold fifty men If It necessary the jail will wUl comfortably accommodate prisoners The building has been C constructed so that an an n addition of a hundred steel cells may be made when needed This was a part of original plan The sheriffs residence in front of the jail is rapidly nearing completion and will be ready for occupancy In bout three weeks