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OmniView™ Design Specifications & Benefits
The OmniView™ incarceration design is a hybrid evolution
which utilizes the best of two incarceration and management
plans; the Remote Surveillance and the Direct Supervision
incarceration and management models. With significant visual
refinements — 100% inmate surveillance and Zero-Blind-Spots,
the OmniView™ design can be said to incorporate the safety
of the Remote Surveillance model and the one on one staff
to inmate interaction so effectively used in the Direct
Supervision model.
The OmniView™ incarceration facility encompasses a centrally
placed, high strength mirrored glass, control center with
a panoramic view providing 100% surveillance of the entire
facility. The complete interior of the cell units, stairwells,
recreation area, work area, entryway and multi-purpose rooms
are fully visible.
All structures facing the control center are of transparent
material fortified by embedded stainless steel aircraft cable
and excluding the solid concrete and steel exterior perimeter
walls surrounding the facility, all load bearing, solid concrete
and steel interior walls are radially aligned to the control
center, and for demonstration purposes are painted yellow (FootnoteFact: Walls generally provide inmates with visual barriers to
hide behind while breaking rules. The OmniView™ design
paints all load bearing interior walls yellow. When the central
control officer and the 24-7-365 cameras look out from the
central control room, the yellow walls disappear, as two
2 inch blue steel mullions for transparent material are placed
in front of yellow four inch wide, leading edge, load bearing
walls. This concentric, geometric placement, provides 100%
surveillance with no visible yellow walls at the central
control's center-point. ).
The OmniView™ facility provides the usual inmate activities
of living, eating, sleeping, recreation, work, study and
congregation in a facility having absolutely no blind spots
and constant surveilability of the inmates on a 100% basis.
The Innovative Personal Space Platform (PSP)
PSPs are
vertically arranged in columns of one, two, three or four-
with a spacious forty square feet plus, of unencumbered
spaceAccording to the American Correctional Association's
Commission on Accreditation Standards for Adult Correctional
Institutions, 4 th Edition dated January 2003 — the more
restrictive Maximum Custody Single Cell requires thirty-five
square feet of Unencumbered Space. The Personal Space Platforms
(PSP's) provide forty square feet of Unencumbered Space each
on the PSPs and an additional six-hundred
forty square feet of Unencumbered Space within the Multiple
Occupancy sixteen Person Cell. for
each inmate. All cells have a ceiling height of thirteen
feet six inches.
Single Housing
Each one-hundred-fifty square foot single
cell has its own PSP, shower-wash basin-toilet combination
(with frosted glass for modesty), bed, mirror, desk, chair,
fire sprinkler head(s), intercom, educational color television,
phone jack, computer jack, and secure locker. The central
control duty station officer (CO) pushes one button to
release the inmate for required exercise. The inmate walks
through the adjacent day room, to a second door, where a
second button push from the CO lets the inmate into the exercise
area. To return to the cell the process is reversed. No handcuffs,
no extra staff, reduced exposure to harm for staff and
a 24-7-365 time & date inset, permanent digital video record
of the standards required exercise period.
Multiple Housing
Multiple
Occupancy Cell (MOC) in sizes of 16, 32, or 48. PSPs
provide a spacious forty square feet of unencumbered
space for a semi-private area plus an additional forty
square feet of unencumbered space within the cell for
each inmate. Each (MOC) also provides shower-wash basin-toilet
combinations, (with frosted glass for modesty) beds, mirrors,
desks, chairs, fire sprinkler head(s), intercoms, educational
color televisions, phone jacks, computer jacks and secure
lockers.
Each 16 bed MOC contains six hundred forty square
feet of unencumbered space. A red steel spiral
staircase and a curtain wall consisting of fifteen ¼ inch
stainless steel cables, with openings spaced every five
inches for unobstructed observation, adds to the inmate's
safety. Two washer and dryer combinations increase inmate
hygiene and limit laundry transmitted infections
All cells meet or exceed the Texas Commission on Jail Standards
(TCJS ) requirements; the American Correctional Association's
(ACA's) Commission on Accreditation Standards for Adult Correctional
Institutions, 4 th Edition dated January 2003; Standards
for Adult Local Detention Facilities March 1991, 3rd edition;
Standards For Juvenile Correctional Facilities , February
2003; and Standards For Juvenile Detention Facilities May
1991 and is TCJS and ACA standards compliant. Separate
sight and sound, main-level and/or sub-level, secure, outdoor
recreation space is provided.
Fire
In a catastrophic fire the greatest danger is from
smoke when high levels of carbon monoxide, from inhaled
smoke, combines in the body to form lethal levels of carboxy
hemoglobin. The National Fire Protection Association's (NFPA)
standards with a normal ceiling height (assumed at 8' 0") allows
3 minutes to evacuate. The OmniView™ glass front cell design's
ceiling height of 13' 6" allows at least an additional
2 minutes plus to evacuate. Five evacuation minutes could
be very important. A two hour fire rating is achieved.
Escape
The OmniView™ transparent cell front is fabricated
of interleaved, high strength, stainless steel aircraft
cable embedded glass. The OmniView™ cell front design's
one hundred per cent inmate surveillance precludes escapes
like the January 2001 incident at Oklahoma's H (high
maximum custody) unit where three inmates in three separate
single cells simultaneously pried plumbing fixtures away
from their rear cell walls, accessed a plumbing chase,
climbed to the roof and over the custody fence. All inmate
activity is in full view of the central duty station
staff and 24-7-365 color television cameras continually
record/archive with a time and date inset.
Suicide
The US Department of Justice publication Conditions
of Confinement describes the traditional practice of 15
minute observation intervals each providing 3.75 cycles
of suicide attempt opportunity of 4 minutes, which
is the length of time after which permanent brain damage
can occur in an attempted hanging. Inmates are less
likely to attempt suicide while under known visual
and recorded observation. The OmniView™ 100% surveillance
design eliminates the discovery period and consequently
greatly reduces the response time if an adverse event
develops. The response time is often the determinate
factor in suicide attempt survival.
Rape
According to the PRISON JOURNAL (SourceDallas Morning News
Page 6A 04-22-2001) study
of seven men's prisons (December 2000) 21% of men reported
at least one forced sexual contact and at least 7% reported
that they had been raped. Inmates rarely attempt predatory
behavior while under known staff and camera observation.
The OmniView™ design is uniquely equipped to meet the zero
tolerance incontrovertible proof of staff and inmate safety
required by the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003.
Disease: Sexually Transmitted
HIV, AIDS, Gonorrhea, Syphilis, Chlamydia, Genital Herpes, Tuberculosis, Hepatitis
B and C, and other diseases: 100% inmate
surveillance precludes private sexual contact. Inmates
rarely attempt proscribed behavior while under visual
staff and recorded camera observation.
Disease: General
Tuberculosis, SARS, airborne infectious disease:
Each cell (1 - 16 - 32 - 48) has both artificial and
natural light and 100% fresh air make up. Fifteen cubic
feet per minute of fresh air circulation with a negative
air pressure is maintained in the sallyport, booking
area and new inmate quarantine cells.
Standards Compliant
The construction and design of the OmniView™ meets
or exceeds the most current Texas Commission on Jail
Standards (TCJS ) requirements; the American Correctional
Association's Standards for Adult Correctional Institutions
4 th Edition January 2003 ; Standards for Adult Local
Detention Facilities March 1991, 3rd edition ; Standards
For Juvenile Correctional Facilities, February 2003
; and Standards For Juvenile Detention Facilities May
1991 and is both TCJS and ACA standards compliant.
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