In the standing jail, the prisoners are in a cell blocks adjacent to the guards. Delinski wants the new jail to be pod, or doughnut, shaped. The outside of the doughnut is where the prisoners are held. The doughnut hole is where the guards are stationed. The guards can constantly see what the prisoners are doing and vice versa.
Critics say the doughnut version is too expensive.
I'm a taxpayer, too. They are not getting anything over and above the requirements by the country. There is nothing extravagant. This is the right decision. I can go home and sleep at night and know that I'm on the right track to making the jail a better place for our staff to control the inmates.