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Update, State Prison Project - Utah State Prison design revealed with explanation of new management style

“If we start with the stereotypes that prisoners are evil monsters who deserve penal hell holes, we’ll take the same failed approach, but if we design prisons that look more like colleges, then we can start seeing prisoners as people with potential," said Yvonne Jewkes, a criminologist at the University of Brighton in the U.K. and a key voice in the emerging international conversation on prison design.

That community of experts will be closely watching Utah's new prison, one of the largest and most ambitious projects to date. Utah new facility is, quite literally, the "next big thing," the boldest effort to date to combine a massive, centralized facility with the new principles of prison design.

http://fox13now.com/2017/04/14/utah-...agement-style/



SALT LAKE CITY -- The State of Utah released artist renderings of the new state prison's interior design, signaling a shift in management of cell blocks.

The layout allows some guards to monitor the blocks from behind floor-to-ceiling windows, while their partners stroll the block with a technique called direct supervision.

The State Prison Development Commission saw the new designs and got updates on construction and funding at a meeting held Friday.

State Corrections officials said direct supervision has become the standard around the country because it's proven to reduce violence and help prisoners stay on track with education, jobs, and other programs meant to prevent recidivism.

The prison will have a 4,000-bed capacity. Corrections officials told lawmakers that's bigger than most modern prisons around the world.

Construction should be complete in November of 2020, and staff will move in and prepare to welcome prisoners in the Spring of 2021.


State prison will be done by 2020; inmates there by 2021

Brady Mccombs - Associated Press - The Sacramento Bee

SALT LAKE CITY — ...The $650 million project should be done by November 2020. But it will take at least six months to move prisoners from the current facility in Draper to the new one about 25 miles north near the Salt Lake City International Airport, said John Kemp of the construction team hired by the state...

...The prison design will include several different types of housing areas to allow corrections officers to reward prisoners for making good choices as well as punish those who aren't behaving well, Miller said.

Prisoners doing well would be able to live in areas where their bathrooms aren't in their bedrooms and they have their own bed rather than a bunk bed, Miller said. Those facing punishment will be in traditional prison cells with bunk beds and bathrooms nearby.

"We are reinventing, in many ways, how corrections are delivered in the state of Utah," Miller said...


In this April 6, 2017, photo, a sign showing the future site of the Utah State Correction facility is displayed near the Salt Lake City International Airport. State officials say the new state prison is expected to be done by the end of 2020 as scheduled, but that inmates won't be moved there until the following year. Officials said Friday, April 14, 2017, during a Prison Development Commission hearing that it will take about six months to transition prisoners from the current facility in Draper to the new one about 25 miles north near the Salt Lake City International Airport. Rick Bowmer - AP


Why Utah's new prison design is cutting edge

Eric Schulzke - Deseret News

Utah’s current prison in Draper is steel gray and massive inside. As if from a scene in a dystopian film, long rows of clamorous cell blocks recede into the distance with four vertigo-inducing levels of cells hovering overhead, all lit with harsh fluorescent lights.

The state's new prison, however, will look very different, starting with a more human scale, according to planners. Smaller units set on just two floors will all open onto a day room. Cells will be angled to capture natural light from large windows in the commons area with colored walls, while windowed doors on cells replace gray steel bars.

Scheduled to open near the Salt Lake Airport in 2020, the new 4,000-bed prison will also function very differently from the facility it replaces. And while much remains to be determined, the watchwords of “humane” and “normalizing” are guiding the way, say the architects, designers and corrections officials planning the new facility.



KMD/HMC Architects - The Las Colinas Women's Detention Facility in San Diego County, California. Designed by HMC Architects. The new Utah prison will draw on some of the aesthetic concepts in this lower security, short-term facility.

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