A criminal defense lawyer Tampa, Florida knows the statistics for jailing criminals and just how long a jail or correctional facility will last – 30 years according to The National Institute of Corrections. During this 30-year life expectancy, the biggest expense a correctional facility will see – 90 percent of its total – will go to its operating costs which leave only 10 percent for the initial start up costs. Many feel a staff-efficient design is more important than a cost efficient building, although the controversy surrounding a new correctional facility is typically centered on ‘not in my backyard’ campaigns.
Over the past 25 plus years, the jail system in Hillsborough, Tampa Florida, has served as a case history of the importance of a good operating system and a well designed facility. Back in 1981, this correctional facility held 1,200 inmates in four jail cells and a work release center. As of today, all of these facilities have been either closed or demolished and everyone has been moved into a newer facility, a two-room, direct-supervision jail and work release center with a capacity of 4,190 inmates. This is good news to criminal lawyers, Tampa.
The Orient Road Jail was originally designed to hold 1,330 prisoners and 48 to a pod; however, due to over crowding, the total was pushed up to 1,711 and 64 to a pod. The number of additional inmates to a pod – which was later adopted by the American Correctional Association Standards Committee based on this experiment – the question of how many inmates to a pod was too many was arrived at by placing several inmates into a pod until the deputy overseeing them was not able to cope with the additional inmates. The number of inmates he could manage was 64.
Tampa DUI lawyers, who sometimes request that their clients receive probation due to the overcrowding of prisons, use the information regarding a single deputy watching 64 inmates at a time to help his or her case. Another tactic a DUI attorney might employ is to ask the judge to allow their client to serve a prison sentence only on the weekends if they have a fulltime job.
