Williams news., 1907-12-28
PLAN FOR NEW "PEN"

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 posed new territorial prison, the construction of which is to be un- derta ken early next year. The plan is only an outline made with
 a pencil by Architect Frost, a
 transference to paper of certain
 ideas of the governor, as to what
 the general features of the institu-
 ton should be. It is only tenta-
 tive and will proba bly, be modified
 somewhat and perhaps changed entirely. being merely evolution
 from which the final plans will emerge. However, it seems to be
 very acceptable in a general way and the details will be taken care of as they are encountered in a further study of it.
 The plan calls for a prison wall of sufficient strength and height, surrounding square, each side of which shall be GOO feet long, with big tower at each end of the four corners, the towers and wall to be protected by guards and guns In the center of the square will be tower 24 feet in diameter and suffi-
 ;iently high to overlook the entire enclosure. Around this tower will De circular area way or prison yard of suita ble dimensions. With their hither ends abutting on the outer line of this circular area way, will be eight buildings, known as cell wings. These buildings will each be 43 feet wide by 145 feet long Four of them will run in l direct lines from the observer in the central tower to the four corn CTS of the rectangular grounds. The reader may understand more clear ly by saying that if the grounds be laid out squarely with the points of the compass. the first four build ings named will run directly with the four points of the compass and the other four, which will alternate with them will run to the north east, northwest, southeast and southwest. All buildings being of the same length there would be considerab ble area in the corners still vacant. This will be utilized in the construction of four shop buildings, each the same width as the prison wings and between 50 and 60 feet long, on line with the four wings running toward the corners. There will be iron fences between the end of each building and the wall, and iron gates be- tween the ends of each building where the dividing avenues front on the area circular area way or prison yard surrounding the tower
 The guard in the tower can have every spot on the grounds under his eye at once by merely turning around and can look down each avenue between the buildings with out moving from his post. Should trouble arise in any avenue by see ing the gate is. locked it can be localized or maintained within that single section of the. grounds.
 The eight prison wings being ex- actly alike description of one will answer for all. From the area way the door opens into the jailor's room. Another door in the center of the farther wall of this room opens into what is known as the utility corridor, 5 feet wide, run ming clear through the center of the building to the further end. Each side of it and backing against! it is a row of twenty five cells, two tiers high. or fifty cells on each side, 100 in the building. From the jailor's room also doors open into what are known as the two prisoners corridors. five feet wide, running in front of the cells clear to the most distant one in the i. building. Between these corridors and the outer walls of the building the guards corridor, ' feet wide, runs clear around the 100 cells.