Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-05-17
FIRST GROUP
OF PRISONERS
MOVE JUNE /
Will Be Housed in Wooden
Barracks at New Site for
Reformatory.
PRISON BOARD MEETS

The first contingent of reformatory in
mates will lie sent to Pendleton, the site
of the new reformatory, from Jefferson
vile, about June 1, 1t was learned. to-
day, when members Of the reformatory
board met with Governor McCray. 1t Is
expected the two-story frame structure,
which Is to house them, will be COM
pleted by that time.
This building is to have two dormitories
on the ground floor, accommodating fifty
men each, a dining room to seat 100, a
recreation room and a kitchen. On the
second floor will be quarters for twenty
1--WE officers and foremen. This building
can be enlarged, II necessary, 1t Is said.
1t Is being built at the rear of the thirty
acres to be enclosed by a thirty foot ce-
menG wall. The frame structure is not
Ito be part of the permanent construc-
tIon and probably will be used as
shop for the manufacture Of small articles
after 1t Is vacated as q barracks.
FIRST UNIT Is
POWER HOUSE.
The first unit to be constructed will be
the power plant which Is to be placed in
the rear Of the enclosure. A tunnel Will
run from the front Of the institution to
the power house with lateral channels
where needed to accommodate water,
gas and electricity and all other service
mains The total estimated cost OF lay.
Ing the mains, the power house and
erection of the wall Is S275,0oo.
The next step. according to present
plans Of the board, will be the building
Of one cell house which will be Of three
or four tiers There will be two such
cell houses, fanking the main entrance
and their length will be that Of sixty
cells, two rows and three tiers but II 1t is
decided to increase the tiers there win
probably be but forty five cells In q row.
In either case 1t Is expected to have $50
cells to the block.
Two other cell blocks win radiate at an
angle from the inner guards hall which
viii be a building 40 by 90 feet and will
constitute the actual entrance to the in
stitution. One Of these radiating blocks
set at As degrees to the others will be
built on different plan from the others.
Instead OF having the cells In the center
and the walks between the cells and the
outer wall, the walk viii be In the CEN
ter and the cell windows win look
through the outer wall Of the cell block
The other building will have a ground
floor dormitory to accommodate 200 with
a room for moving picture exhibitions
upstairs.
WORK ON
COST PLUS BASIS.
Cnder the cost plus proposal. work
viii not be contracted for ahead OF the
money appropriations. At present the
board had approximately three-quarters
OF a million dollars which Is as follows:
$4,000 appropriated for removal, $780,
900 from Colgate & Co.. which bought
the Jeffersonvtlle plant, and $780,
COO In specific appropriations Materials
valued at SIS, 600 from the old institution
probably can be salyaged for the new re-
formatory.
Plans for the buildings have not been
made public heretofore The dining room
win occupy the center Of the thirty acre
tract In the rear of the dining room
viii be the kitchen and the Ice plant and
cold storage facilities adjacent.
On one side a hospital Is to be erected
and viii contain fifty beds, twenty de-
tention cells, the assistant superintend-
ent's office. Other buildings will con-
tain the Identification bureau, tailor and
printing shops. On the right hand side
from the entrance will be the chapel, the
school and library building, two voca-
tional training buildings and two indus
trial buildings
Recreation grounds and sites for va
rious units of the foundry buildings have
been laid out.
: Tho administration building projects
from the front wall ana IN one wing will
be the superintendent office, board of
trustees room. office OF clerk Upstairs
In one wing of the building viii be spe-
cial rooms with sleeping accommodations
for officers.