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In order to provide another perspective about the overall adequacy of the size of space and individual functional use areas designed and constructed into the Santa Ana City Jail detention facility, a sampling of comparable California jails included in a database developed by the Board of State and Community Corrections (BSCC) was collected and analyzed. The database contains detailed functional use area space measurements on 79 jails built during last wave of major state-wide jail construction activity in the 1990s. The jail database shows that in California, the average square foot of building space per rated for full- service correctional facilities consisting of primarily double -occupancy cells is 400 square feet per inmate. The database also shows that adult correctional facilities consisting of primarily dormitories contain approximately 350 square feet per rated inmate bed. A sampling of 19 comparable medium-sized correctional facilities that had inmate housing capacity for 300 - 600 custody beds were used for this comparative analysis. As the following data shows, the average interior gross area for the comparison sample is 349.3 square feet per bed. These correctional facility facilities were all built in California incorporating the podular design philosophy. Based on the BSCC rated capacity of 480 inmates and an interior gross area of 149,826 square feet, the area per bed of the City Jail is 312.1 square feet which is approximately 11.9% below the BSCC Correctional Facility Database. Comparison of Santa Ana City Jail Defined Space Allocations with Other California Medium Jails Santa Ana City Jail CA Medium County Jail Database Average Average % of Total Average Square % of Total Sq. Ft. Square Square Sq. Ft. Comparison Functional Use Area Footage Sq. Ft. Per Bed Footage Footage Per Bed %+I - +I -1. 1.Administration 3,427 2.0% 7.1 6,371 4.2% 14.4 -101.3% 2. Lobby/ Public 2,706 1.6% 5.6 1,979 1.3% 4.7 16.8% 3. Visitation 4,399 2.6% 9.2 4,049 2.7% 11 -20.2% 4. Central Control 413 0.2% 0.9 508 0.3% 1.4 -66.2° 5. Main/Storage/Utility 25,409 15.1% 52.9 9,576 6.4% 22.2 58.1% 6. Food Service 7,550 4.5% 15.7 10,497 7.0% 26.1 -65.8% 7. Laundry 2,784 1.7% 5.8 1,555 1.0% .3.1 47.1° 8. Intake / Release 20,828 12.4% 43.4 11,250 7.5% 27 37.7% 9. Medical / Mental Health / Dental 1,672 1.0% 3.5 4,267 2.8% 10.1 -188.8% 10. Inmate Programs 4,833 2.9% 10.1 4,793 3.2% 10.7 0.8% 11. Housing /Dayrooms 58,977 35.1% 122.9 68,953 45.9% 187.3 -52.4° 12. Circulation 16,828 10.0% 35.1 11,769 7.8% 31.3 10.7% Total Indoor Jail Space 149,826 1 89.1% 314.1 135,567 90.3% 349.3 -11.9% 13. Quasi -Outdoor Recreation Yards 7,930 4.7% 16.5 9,053 6.0% 23.4 14. Vehicle Salyport 10,487 6.2% 21.8 5,507 3.7% 19.7 Total Outdoor Jail Since 18,417 10.9% 38.4 14,560 9.7% 43.1 Total Jail Functional Use Area Space 168,243 100.0% 350.5 150,127 100.0% 392.4 Note: The California jail database Areas shown are averaged for 19 medium-sized county detention facilities constructed during the state-wide wave of countyjail building during the 1990s and jails that have inmate housing capacity for populations of 300-600 custody beds. Overall, the Santa Ana City Jail's functional use area space and related sizes are generally consistent with the database standards for space allocations, with the exception of the medical / mental health / dental space, administration area, Central Control room, and smaller dayrooms located adjacent to the eight inmate housing units. The average square foot per bed devoted to inmate programming activities and visitation are also slightly lower. The most significant interior space difference appears to involve the Appendix B. 65A-156