Talking Crime and Jail Time with the Undersheriff
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About a year from now Denver will have a new justice center that will feature a new detention facility for jail inmates. Bill Lovingier, the Director of Corrections and Denver’s Under-sheriff joins Denver DA Mitch Morrissey to talk about the changes ahead.
Artist rendering of portion of new Justice Center
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The Denver Sheriff Department has about 900 employees; most of them (789) are uniformed personnel
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In 2008, there were 46,989 people booked into the Denver County Jail’s two facilities
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The average daily jail population in Denver’s County Jail is about 2000 (it was designed for 1,634)
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More than 3-million meals were prepared by jail kitchen trustees and served to jail inmates in 2008
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The new detention facility will have 1,472 housing unit beds and 28 medical beds
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The new detention facility will use 11 elevators (there are no elevators at the County Jail on Smith Road and there are two at the pre-arraignment facility downtown)
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The new detention center will be 488,000 square feet and will have the equivalent of about 800 miles of wiring
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761,000 pounds of sheet metal has been used in the construction of the new building
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