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A Design for Multiple Clients
Thursday, January 21, 2010

In December, Cornell Companies, Inc., a private provider of correctional services, began housing Alaskan inmates at its newest facility located in Hudson, Colo. Performa, Inc. planned and designed the 1,250 bed, medium-security correctional facility to house multiple clients.

"To bring on multiple clients, Cornell needs to accommodate individual client requirements and avoid inmate integration," said David Robillard, President of Performa's Federal Program. "The facility's flexibility allows Cornell to house large and small populations from a particular client without wasting space or co-mingling inmates."

The 32-acre, 230,000-square-foot Hudson Correctional Facility includes an administrative building, with inmate processing, medical and visitation functions, four inmate housing units, various inmate support services buildings containing vocational, educational, dining and laundry services, recreational programs and a maintenance/warehousing facility.

"This is really a state of the art prison," said Rick Veach, Warden at the Hudson Correctional Facility. "I have been at 11 different prisons that I was stationed at with the Federal Bureau of Prisons and this is probably the nicest."

"The buildings are spacious, the design is very nice, we have a central control in each of the housing unit buildings and the housing units have a lot of room."

In a recent news story from Alaska's Channel 2-KTUU, inmates, compared the new Hudson Facility to the previous Arizona prison from which they were transferred. "This place is the best we have been so far," said one Alaskan inmate. 

According to the news story, the Alaska Department of Corrections plans to model their upcoming facility in Port Mackenzie to what is available at the Hudson Facility.

Watch the entire news story>>>

 The plan/design/build project team, Miron/Performa has master planned the correctional complex to add two additional phases which would increase the inmate bed capacity to 4,000 beds.

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This blog is a collaborative effort of the Justice group at Performa Inc. It is a platform for dialogue and the exploration of issues impacting correctional facilities, detention centers, homeland security facilities and more. The group is led by David Robillard, President of the Performa Justice Team.