001my name is Andrew McMahon I'm Kate me county facilities director I have an architecture background I went to school to study architecture and I previously worked for the FBI Ann Marie McMahon is the one behind the design of the new jail being built on Cape May County New Jersey I've been the project manager since 2008 on this project originally we were going to renovate the current facility but it just wasn't feasible there were many security changes that we made for the project that would help the operations of the facility when an inmate needs medical services even if it's just handing them some medication the nurse has to come to the housing unit and typically in the past facility she would have to be escorted we changed the function of this facility to where she doesn't
002have to be escorted she basically can come toward the housing unit go through the secure vestibule and go into an interview room and pass medication through a food pass to the inmate so it cut down on a lot of the operational and functional issues that we we ran into in the previous facility there have been a lot of things being taken into consideration when this jail was being designed like the minimum security housing unit that unit is a completely open space with no cell doors so this housing unit and every housing unit in this facility is set up with direct supervision so they have intimate relationship between the officer and each inmate because there they're not behind a solid wall and they're within the housing unit with the inmate our previous facility inmates were able
003to go outside for their yard this facility is set up with an indoor exercise yard so they they basically don't leave the housing unit so this area has chairs and tables so there their activities are here there are TVs in here for them only the inmate workers are able to leave the housing unit they serve the function of the laundry area and the kitchen as well with a little bit of research we've learned that this is called direct supervision the purpose of direct supervision is to bring the jail together as a community studies show that this method of supervision is more likely to successfully rehabilitate the prisoners this jail is direct supervision which means one officer is housed within the housing unit with approximately 64 inmates it's actually more secure than the linear supervision which
004was the the past practice of designing jails direct supervision allows the officer to be more involved with the inmates on a direct basis they become more one-on-one rather than just watching them from afar either on camera or you know through a secure room most recently many jails are doing precast construction so all these cells were built off-site and transported here on a truck and set in place the the dorm areas are for the less at risk inmates so the the higher security dorms which you're in here this is the detention unit so these will all have the cell doors which you can see at the end of the day we are happy to hear that our jails are being turned into rehabilitation centers and not just places bad people go the way that our jail
005is set up is that we have one main corridor that runs the length of the jail all the way down and all the way back inmates will be housed down towards the end of the main corridor with their housing units separated on each side of the main quarter so when any inmate movement is conducted it'd be down this main corridor and out this way which way how they go to court or being released from this facility what's different about our jail now is that here we're going to be not only doing the laundry for all the inmates that are housed here all their personal belongings we're also going to be doing the laundry for the county's nursing home all their bed linens previously the county had a contract with an outside vendor we have taken
006over that contract and in trying to save the county a significant amount of money