Corrections/Detentions Environments
Hudson Correctional Facility
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Private prison operator Cornell’s strategic objective for the facility was to build a secure, safe, and efficient facility for multiple clients that could easily be expanded without operational disruption or security compromises.
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The facility’s users’ needs included 1,250 bed medium-security facility to house multiple clients. 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.
Design
The resulting design solution providesfacility flexibility to allow Cornell to house large and small populations from a particular client without wasting space or co-mingling inmates.
"This is really a state of the art prison. I have been at 11 different prisons that I was stationed at with the Federal Bureau of Prisons and this is probably the nicest." - Rick Veach, Warden at the Hudson Correctional Facility.
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