NCJ Number
124735
Date Published
1989
Length
37 pages
Annotation
The purpose of this master plan is to describe fundamental elements of future detention facility development for Louisiana's Caddo Parish Sheriff Department.
Abstract
Existing parish facilities are overcrowded and poorly configured and lack many basic functions found in modern jails. Alternatives to incarceration must therefore be expanded to allow the parish to use its scarce jail beds effectively. Nonetheless, the master plan proposes a three-phase program of detention facility redevelopment over a 10-year period from 1990 to 2000. The plan proposes the immediate construction of a 600-bed jail in the downtown Shreveport area. The facility would have both single-cell and dormitory housing and would be designed to accommodate a substantial level of double bunking so that the effective capacity of the jail would be 800 to 900 beds. Phase two would involve remodeling of the courthouse jail for court holding functions, while phase three would be the addition of housing to the new jail completed in phase one. Inmate population projections indicate an increase in jail bed demand which could range from 750 to 1,050 beds by the year 2000. Facility expansion for the year 2000 has been planned to accommodate 300 beds of single-cell housing under a worst case scenario. The required area for the phase one jail is estimated at 251,000 gross square feet, including 432 single cells, 126 dormitory beds, an intake center, and all necessary support functions. Estimated costs in 1989 dollars, not including land acquisition costs, are $30.3 million for the new jail and $1.1 million for the courthouse jail remodeling. Tables.