The Registration Building
Besides containing the general Administration Offices, the Bureau of Registration and the Record Bureau the Registration Building will include a reception room where prisoners may converse with visiting relatives and friends. In the past this problem of a reception room for the visitors to prisoners was a difficult one for prison authorities, as it was practically impossible while allowing prisoners a reasonable amount of freedom for the discussion of private and confidential matters to prevent the transfer of weapons, liquors, drugs and implements of escape. This difficulty, however, we think, has now been successfully solved through the following arrangement: Two parts of a large room are separated by two wire nettings, so placed that they form an enclosed passage six feet in width, where guards can be stationed to prevent any attempt to pass articles to the prisoners without, at the same time, interfering in the carrying on of a conversation.
MESS HALL AND KITCHEN BUILDING—BASEMENT
This Floor Contains a Bakery with Flour and Bread Storage Rooms and with Equipment to Provide Bread for the Entire Institution, Refrigerating Rooms for the Storage of Unprepared Food, a Plant for the Making of Ice, and an Ample Kitchen Store Room.
A Mess Hall with Independent Coat Room and Outside Entrance, a Guard’s Toilet, Recreation and Lunch Room are also Provided.
MESS HALL AND KITCHEN BUILDING—FIRST FLOOR