Physical Stuff
Okay, so this is actually the second day in a row that I'll be posting on this thing, so it's already going better than my last attempt at LJ. :
I didn't work today (until I actually join my shift rotation, I'm just 5 days a week), so I have no stories from today, but I'm going to talk about the physical layout of the jail, then maybe I'll tell a story.
Our jail is actually comprised of two buildings. The first building we'll call the "Old Jail". The Old Jail was, up until the past few years, the full extent of our county jail. Intake took place in the basement, and inmates were housed on two other floors. The remainder of the building was (and still is) administrative offices for the city. We still use the two floors of housing, they contain Quads 1 through 7.
Quad 1 is short-term housing, meaning that anyone who will be in our custody less than 72 hours goes there. Quad 1 has multiple mods, or rooms. Each mod is separate from the other mods, but is contained in the same areas, thus a Quad. I know this sounds confusing, but it's really not too bad. Just think of it this way, Quad 1 has 6 different rooms, all dormitory-style (meaning it is full of bunk beds, not cells), and houses around 70 inmates. Quads 2-7 are mostly long-term housing (every once in a while a mod in Quad 2 will be classed short-term if we run out of beds in Quad 1). Quad 7 is our female housing unit. Since we typically only have around 80 females in custody, they only warrant one Quad.
The second building we'll call the "New Jail". The new jail was built less than 10 years ago and is mucho state-of-the-art. The basement is our intake area where all our new inmates come in. Arresting agencies pull into our security garage and unload their prisoners. I'm not going to go in to the intake process now, it's a long one.
The building is 7 floors high with levels 3-6 being housing floors. Quads 8-10 are our secure Quads. I'm also not going to get in to who lives there right now, but suffice it to say they're locked in their cells for 23 hours a day.
Quads 11-14 are what are called "Direct Supervision" Quads. I'll talk tomorrow about what Direct Supervision is. Right now Just imagine a really large room with 48 cells on two levels (the upper level is a walkway that goes around the walls, so the center is open) surrounding a large dayroom.
I'm tired, sorry no story tonight. I guess I have a lot of explaining about what I do and where I work before any story would make sense. Tomorrow I'll talk about Direct Supervision, and maybe Administrative Segregation. :
Have a great night, all!
I didn't work today (until I actually join my shift rotation, I'm just 5 days a week), so I have no stories from today, but I'm going to talk about the physical layout of the jail, then maybe I'll tell a story.
Our jail is actually comprised of two buildings. The first building we'll call the "Old Jail". The Old Jail was, up until the past few years, the full extent of our county jail. Intake took place in the basement, and inmates were housed on two other floors. The remainder of the building was (and still is) administrative offices for the city. We still use the two floors of housing, they contain Quads 1 through 7.
Quad 1 is short-term housing, meaning that anyone who will be in our custody less than 72 hours goes there. Quad 1 has multiple mods, or rooms. Each mod is separate from the other mods, but is contained in the same areas, thus a Quad. I know this sounds confusing, but it's really not too bad. Just think of it this way, Quad 1 has 6 different rooms, all dormitory-style (meaning it is full of bunk beds, not cells), and houses around 70 inmates. Quads 2-7 are mostly long-term housing (every once in a while a mod in Quad 2 will be classed short-term if we run out of beds in Quad 1). Quad 7 is our female housing unit. Since we typically only have around 80 females in custody, they only warrant one Quad.
The second building we'll call the "New Jail". The new jail was built less than 10 years ago and is mucho state-of-the-art. The basement is our intake area where all our new inmates come in. Arresting agencies pull into our security garage and unload their prisoners. I'm not going to go in to the intake process now, it's a long one.
The building is 7 floors high with levels 3-6 being housing floors. Quads 8-10 are our secure Quads. I'm also not going to get in to who lives there right now, but suffice it to say they're locked in their cells for 23 hours a day.
Quads 11-14 are what are called "Direct Supervision" Quads. I'll talk tomorrow about what Direct Supervision is. Right now Just imagine a really large room with 48 cells on two levels (the upper level is a walkway that goes around the walls, so the center is open) surrounding a large dayroom.
I'm tired, sorry no story tonight. I guess I have a lot of explaining about what I do and where I work before any story would make sense. Tomorrow I'll talk about Direct Supervision, and maybe Administrative Segregation. :
Have a great night, all!