With
a three-year, sole-source, Federal Bureau of Prisons contract, Carl Sonny Emerson ran Emerson House, 1975
- 1981, located in Denver, Colorado. Emerson House was, the
first minimum security private prison in the United States.
During that time Federal Judge Richard P. Matsch pulled federal
inmates from the Denver County Jail and placed them at Emerson
House after a federal youth was raped within the Denver County
Jail.
When an eighteen year old Federal Juvenile Delinquency Act
(FJDA), Native American youth committed suicide he left a
suicide note written to Mr. Emerson: “Sonny, please don't
tell my Dad I am a screw-up. I just received my $2,000 Sioux
benefits on my eighteenth birthday, I have been accepted
into school, I just got a good job and I have a girlfriend.
My life is the best right now that it will ever be. I know
what my future will look like when I return to the Reservation.
I am going to check out now because I can't face that”.
The
youth began in secure custody and worked himself up to
monitored community access. Emerson House staff discovered
the hanging attempt and the youth was rushed to Denver General
hospital. The FBOP then life-flighted him to South Dakota
where he died. It became obvious to Mr. Emerson that any incarceration
design with blind-spots can not provide, claim nor guarantee,
staff / inmate safety.
Mr. Emerson states these traumatic events, and the profound
sense of loss, were instrumental and driving forces in his
decades long quest for a cost efficient, 100% staff and inmate
surveillance, zero blind-spot, incontrovertibly safer incarceration
design, which he eventually invented, designed and patented
March 26th of 2002 as U.S.
Patent #6,360,494.
Carl Sonny Emerson has spent considerable
research and time developing a total incarceration/rehabilitation
system which when fully implemented, we believe, will no
less than totally revolutionize the juvenile
correctional facility / detention / jail / prison industry
as it exists today.
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