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Show J REVIEW, f December 16, 1965 Beecher Calls Experts Advice On Jail Minimal And Medic Mediocre and guidance given of Pns-o- ns the for representative function and facilities of the new jail m the Metropolitan Hall of Justice were described Wednesday as minimal and Advice bv n rKleral Bure" mediocre. Harold K. Beecher, architect, in a lettec to County Commissioner John Preston Creer, declared that the guidance eiven by Phillip Bergen was minimal and mediocre and we were forced to rely on the recommendations and criticisms of axpenenced jail equipment mam .'it. hirers for detailed information and guidance such as types of segregation, arrangement and require secutiry of locking device. From the period of the early jail design layout stage to date, Mr. Beecher wrote, Salt Lake County has relied on the fed eral prisons inspector, Mr. Bergen, for recommendations concerning the jail facility and for criticism of our proposed drawings and specifications. In a lettec to Mr. Beecher) Commissioner Creer told the architect that Mr. Bergen indicated he brought this (placement of beds for women inmates) to your attention and to others during one of his previous visits. This is absolutely not true, Mr. Beecher declared. The beds, presently situated in pairs in very close proximity and posing a moral problem to jail administrators, will be separated to provide three feet space between each bed. What ameies me, Mr. Beecher wrote, 'is that Mr. Bergen would say that he brought this to my attention, when he did not do so. This situation has repeated itself over and over again on this project with Mr. Ber- - i - - (JT7 ',V J. I.Sum V t'lifti 8 INDEFENSE of criticism made by Jail expert Phillip Bergin concerning the new jail In the Metropolitan Hall of Justice, Harold K. Beecher, architect, above, called Bergins advice minimal and mediocre. ' Standard gen stating that such and such should have been provided, ignoring the fact that he had numerous opportunities to recommend die item be included and that it was his responsibility to do so, but he never did it at the proper time. As to service corridors behind cellblocks, Mr. Beecher observed that the service corridor was narrowed because of shortage of funds and lim an order for increase in size of ductwork received after our working drawings were quite well along. The ducts were increased in size as directed by the Joint Authority, Mr. Beecher said, in case it was later deemed adviseable to provide to the jail areas. This size increase, he concluded, contributed further to the conjestion of the utility corridors. itations set by the Citizens Advisory committee. Mr. Beecher denied that it is impossible to enter and go through the service corridor. He noted that the ducts and piping in the corridor are put there to keep them from access to inmates. The four-fe- et wide corridor, he said, can be entered from either end. Part of the crowding of the corridor, he added, is due to Outlines Poverty War Details Wage Scale not heard. Community Action seeks to coordinate the activity of the total community; to fill the -gaps between existing comm unity service organizations. Miss Cook and others assuming leadership in the recently funded Community 'Action program appeared as luncheon guests of the second session of the Community Resources Orientation Program, sponsored by the Community Services Council at the Prudential Federal Auditorium, 3260 South State. Executives, staff members, student boar members, trainees and others of Salt Lake Area agencies met to be informed of the exlstance of other existing social services, their programs, flexibilities, limitations, fees, rules of eligibility and their policies. The Monday session was the second at which more than 400 persons appeared for the exchange of information to improve services their voices are than 200 representacommunity services and organizations in Lake Area were told A standardized wage scale Mooday that the Salt Lake Area the first for the Salt Lake Community Action Program County Sheriffs Department for Economic Opportunity is - was adopted, and approved met to be considered a cure J in November, giving sheriff all the ills of society, or . for ws averaging tdeputies-walerffor relieving all Ills resulting 15 bertnoftth below from poverty. those of Salt Lake City police. Miss L. Lorraine Cook, program director, emphaIn appreciation, perhaps, sizes that the organization will deputies of the sheriff's Panot offer dependency; will not comthe trol Division, under with just a segment of deal mand of Capt. Ferns Andrus, the population. at Lake Salt the people gave Making it clear that comCounty 673 hours and 43 minaction is for developmunity Noutes of overtime during ment and Improvement of the vember. entire community, Miss Cook asserted that the program It was overtime, Capt. Andrus explained, for which the does offer hope to the impoverished; it offers hope to men will not be paid and for the many agencies involved which they will not receive in the movement toward a off. Salt time compensating better society. Lake City compensates overToo often, she continued, time with time off. community services agencies are left without hope because In his November report to Chief Deputy George Q. Nel-s- en Jr., Capt. Andrus reported that the 59 men of his division patrolled 104,548 miles inSalt Lake County. More tives of agencies the Salt For Sheriff to Salt Lake Area residents. Local hospitals, school districts, counseling services, health foundations local government health agencies and those organizations sponsored and supported by the Community Services Council and United Fund explained their functions' so that they might be considered for referral by related or unrelated service agencies or organizations. The Very Reverent Wesley Frensdorff, Bountiful Episcopal Church of the Resurrection, was introduced to the delegates as the recently named president of the Com-- of WHAT directors. iJXD2)Tr (T.TCe. 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ECHttET (KCttlEATr (ECS AV Miss Cook told the delegates-that Community Action 'seeks to develop independence in individuals by helping persons to help themselves; by helping other agencies to improve to better meet the needs of the public. Community Action, she asserted, is total In pain, If you can give a CIICEIMDS |