Show M 1 Davis Considering Jail Improvement I By LE ANN BLODGETT Despite the fact that the Davis County Jail is sturdy and it lacks adequate space and Schematics for a new addition have been tentatively approved by the Davis County Commission and Sheriff William Peters is looking them ARCHITECTS Sterling Lyon and Richard Lowe presented drawings at a Commission meeting this The only thing Commission Chairman Stanley Smoot turned thumbs down on was a prison fence on Main The plans arc very sophisticated and include high-security for prisoner fortified area for dispatcher service and other security such as a separate entrance for the civil division and separation of general public from cell block THE JAIL hasn't been good lately for women prisoners and with the new equality far it will include eight cells and future plans for a prison The idea for the ten foot fence that was included in the original plans was for further security for the sally port drop-off LYON said would be brought in by car and when they arrive in the compound they would be admitted by the driver identifying them to the who would control the A brick drive-in type which will be part of the structure sally and a more attractive fence will give adequate protection and will not be objectionable in At the present there is one main entrance for the The new plans call for an entrance on the west side for the office staff and people working in AN EFFORT will be made to have persons with jail business enter the building towards the northeast corner and separate jail visitors from people who want to go to the records An new entrance that will be open twenty-four hours a day will he monitored at night by the who will be in the safely protected from He will monitor the entrance by television and THE EXISTING cell blocks will for the most as they except for Despite the fac that called a sometimes a lail is they do try to keep This has it adequately been a problem in the The cells have not been heated because of a problem with ventilation and The new system will include a new boiler and a special fan room and make the jail independent or the courthouse for PLANS include a exercise A cess to the room will feature special lineup a sturdy wall between the lineup and witnesses with a one-way vision glass The architect said that you put a bright light on the and it makes it impossible for them to see the audience THERE WILL be an area with a receptionist desk for the purpose of screening visitors to the sheriff- Space wi be made available for a full time switch board although one isn't needed at the present there is a foreseeable future Sheriff Peters the present time they separate pre-sentenced prisoners from sentenced but there is a need to separate the more hardened THE NEW second floor addition will provide a place for the patrolmen who spend most of the day on They will have desks to write an evidence room with lockers for a shower and locker There will be more room for the crime lab and it will feature a dark The polygraph room will be upstairs near the crime People who are interviewed with polygraph are generally interviewed before THE task force will have a special 16 x 13 foot Commissioner Smoot set up a desk until government grant money runs The architect plans two-thirds of the basement for civil but exact needs will have to be Approximately 1800 square feet will be available for civil THE CIVIL defense be in the basement near the dispatcher as that would be the nerve center in times of The design of the new cons addition w monize with existing as much as The architects also a future ten year including a tion center for H THE PRESENT approximately which would include but not Lowe going up so fast you cann about 8 percent a year each vear it is 4 Sheriff Peters says will be a need for four 10 more people to stall it u would be 1 maintenance and there won be no need for extra nair v lj SHERIFF Peters are in good shape on com our crime lab is He says he believes it is' good functional plan and hi the ability of projecting fa the next ten The fine such placing of antenna will have to and the architects they could have the drawings ready in four months THE PROJECT could ready for bidding in July a if the concrete can be pour before the tion could be completed about one year l I Lowe materials were ordered fa i fall rather than the there would be a price afa In construction of kind the sticky work is the walls are up and then is j SHERIFF Peters appreciate the architects have f have been very nice to w The plans have mi gone eight changes in the i f i The cost breakdown s milled by the architects site work den masonry moisture protects doors and finishes hi air conditioning electrical 1 including interco totaling |