The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-12-19
The New BUILDING g
Is Now Ready
For Use.
sArchitecturalIy Modest
It Is Internally Up
to-Oate.
All the Appointments Are Well
Pleasing to High Sheriff
Henry.

At a cost of s16,s65, the contract
price for the building alone, the addi-
ton to Oahu Prison has been COM
pleted One ward of the jail, in fact,
is now occupied by women prisoners.
and the balance of the building is
ready for occupancy.
ct is a fine building for the pur-
pose" said High Sheriff Henry, going
over the pace yesterday, modern and
up-to-date in every particular
And, in fact, it is fine building for
the purpose for which it was design
ed. There can be not the least ques-
tion about that. The new building.
three-story structure, stands in yard
jail building. 1t is surrounded by a
concrete wall twenty feet in height,
4 AbuiIt by the labor of prisoners in the
jail, and enclosing tract of perhaps
two acres in extent. This new Jail
yard is reached by massive gateway
leading from the yard of the old jail,
and in the middle of the new yard Ger
rit Wilder has planted a kamani tree
the time to come, as the old yard is
now That tree in the old yard, is
perhaps the greatest solace that pris-
4oners in the jail have. The new tree,
it is hoped. viii prove as great bless
ing to the unfortunate in the future.
Passing out of the old jail yard
through the new gate, the new Jail
building stands up clean and white
closure. 1t is of brick, covered with
concrete. and is most massively built.
An iron door leads into the lower cor
ridor, and here just opposite the door
is large closet room in which are
the electric light switches for the en-
tire building, and various other con-
yenfences for the use of the guards.
Opening right and left from the en-
try. are two long wards or corridors,
each cut off from the entry by graf
ed door. The corridor or ward on what
is known a. the mauka side is the
smaller OF the two, containing ten
cells each seven feet, and each capa-
Bile OF holding two, or a a pinch, three
prisoners with comfort The cells are
fitted with hammocks in lieu of cots,
a. reform in the interest of health and
cleanliness both physical and moral, |
and the cells are so arranged that from
the door of one it is impossible TO look |
into the cell directly across the hall
At the end of the ward farthest from
the main door, and this is true of the
all the wards, is a clean, white closet
with open plumbing, and a sink equal
Iy clean and white for the emptying
of Stops These things are arranged
with perfect drainage. and according /
to the best sanitary rules, the appara-
tus being of tie kind in use in the
best modern jails.
Opposite the entry, on the makai
side of the prison, is a larger ward or
corridor, containing twenty-five cells,
and in this larger ward the arrange (
ments are in all respects similar to
those in the smaller one. From the
entry, also. a broad stairway WELL
lighted and with broad landings, leads
up to the second floor. where the wards
and cells are exactly as on the f1oor
DeIoW, with the olHeFellce NIidl III tii0
space occupied by the entry below
there has been placed on this floor
room for guards.
The third floor is arranged precisely
as the second with the exception that
there are concrete partitions in the
hallway so that the two wards are
more private than on the floor below.
The small ward on the second floor, IT
should be noted in pa ssing is the one
now in use for women prisoners in
the Jail. 1t is the intention, OF course
TO keep the women apart from the
men, letting them out to their bath
in the new prison yard after the men
have gone to their work on the streets
and parks
The bath, by the way, is one OF the
best features of the new prison. The