NCJ Number
124740
Date Published
1989
Length
25 pages
Annotation
The purpose of this master plan for Louisiana's Caddo Parish Sheriff Department is to provide a foundation for planning and designing a new parish detention facility to house male and female arrestees who are awaiting or involved in adjudication, or postsentence inmates who have been sentenced to serve time in the parish jail.
Abstract
The master plan proposes long-range detention facility development over a 10-year period from 1990 to 2000. Phase one involves the construction of a 600-cell direct supervision jail to be built in downtown Shreveport. Phase two is the remodeling of the existing courthouse jail solely for court holding purposes. Phase three proposes the addition of housing to the new jail constructed in phase one, if the need arises. The proposed Caddo Parish Detention Center will consist of a video arraignment court, 576 single cells, and 48 dormitory beds and will have about 250,000 square feet. Functional areas will include intake, housing, public areas, administration, medical, and program support areas. A work furlough facility will be constructed outside the security perimeter. The facility will be designed to accommodate housing expansion of 50 percent or nearly 300 beds. Core functions such as intake, medical, and food service will be oversized to accommodate this expansion. Operational, security, and staffing concepts of facility development are discussed, and planning and programming assumptions are outlined. A facility activity diagram is included.