The new Legal Offender Unit at Western State Hospital will provide housing for 240 patients. Rendering courtesy of BJSS Duarte Bryant Architects.
Housing units contain patient rooms, a day room and dining facilities.
The new facility greatly increases the ability of staff to diagnose, care for and treat adult patients referred from the courts. This facility also provides greater security for the staff, patients and surrounding community. The Legal Offender Unit is being built in two phases with improvements being made to the surrounding site. The building construction will include 8-inch CMU exterior bearing walls with brick veneer. Interior partitions will be a combination of CMU and metal stud with gypsum wallboard.