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Firearms Range
At the April 2004 Justice Planning Committee meeting, Criminal Justice
Consultant Dennis Liebert gave a recommendation on how Blue Earth County
can most effectively and efficiently operate its jail.
The efficiency of a jail is predicated on adjacencies, meaning how inmates move through the jail to get from booking, to housing, to program areas, to visits with attorneys and family members. The more adjacencies you can create, the more security you can achieve.
Liebert presented a "pre-architectural program" that includes an ideal operational landscape for the Blue Earth County Jail. It includes two housing pods, totaling 120 jail beds, with the ability to expand to 160 beds for future needs. In addition to more space and beds, the pre-architectural program also includes critical areas that do not currently exist at the County jail, including holding cells, an intoxilizer area, storage rooms, a negative-air cell (to prevent contagious disease from spreading in the facility), program areas and an improved booking area. Liebert's pre-architectural program is based on the direct-supervision philosophy, which has proved to be more safe and efficient to run.
