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Big Sandy Penitentiary

Posted By: NewsHound
Date: Monday, 6 October 2003, at 11:27 p.m.


Big Sandy Penitentiary is Now Officially Up and Running

The 104th federal prison in the United States was dedicated Monday in Martin County and the facility brings with it hundreds of jobs.

It was a long process getting the USP Big Sandy to this day and community leaders say all the hard work is now paying off and will continue to do so.

It was more than five years ago when officials first broke ground on the new Big Sandy Federal Prison.

Those same people were honored to be cutting ribbon at the facility.

The prison is expected to be a big economic boost for the entire Big Sandy Region the prison has already brought 400 new jobs to the area.

The federal prison sits on 300 acres of reclaimed mine land and cost about 140 million dollars.

The prison will start taking minimum security inmates in a couple of weeks and will be fully operational with maximum security inmates in about one month.


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KZF Design is the lead architectural and engineering design component of the PJ Dick Design-Build team currently constructing this $146 million facility—one of the most complex Design-Build projects currently underway by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. With 864 cells, the facility will have a total building area of approximately 677,000 square feet in a compound plan consisting of one- and two-story program buildings, a Federal Prison Industries (UNICOR) factory, and three, four-story general housing buildings enclosed by a continuous secure corridor surrounding an interior compound. In addition, a 27,000 square foot minimum-security prison camp with a rated capacity of 128 inmates and the Central Shared Facilities Warehouse is located outside the USP secure perimeter.

The project is scheduled for final completion by the end of September 2002. Through the spring of 2002, a substantial workforce across the major trades remains at the project; completing site work, interior construction and finishes, and mechanical and electrical work. An additional guard tower was added in the USP yard and is under construction. Installation of security and communications systems is underway throughout the complex. The design build team is confident the project will be completed on schedule.


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Project Description

In the late 1990's, the Federal Bureau of Prisons embarked on an aggressive design-build program designed to nearly double capacity from 105,000 to 190,000 beds nationwide over the next decade. The U.S. Penitentiary at Inez in eastern Kentucky was one of the first contracts awarded under a two-stage solicitation process.

KZF Design is the lead architect and engineer of the P.J. Dick. Design-Build team currently constructing this $146 million corrections facility. The prison is a maximum-security institution with 768 cells and support facilities. 96 special housing cells are included. This facility, which will have a total building area of approximately 677,000 square feet, is a compound plan consisting of one- and two-story program buildings, a Federal Prison Industries (UNICOR) factory, and three, four-story general housing buildings enclosed in a continuous secure corridor surrounding an interior compound. In addition, a minimum-security work camp with living units and support facilities for a capacity of 128 inmates is located outside the secure compound along with a central warehouse, garage maintenance building, and a firing range. The total building area for this camp is approximately 27,000 square feet.

The 345-acre mountainous site is extremely challenging. The site had been strip-mined as well as having two levels of room and tunnel deep mining. The site remediation, including mine grouting, was extensive, and the earthwork package is the largest and most complex ever undertaken by the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

The project is scheduled for completion in August 2002.


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Thanks for posting this. I am afraid we may end up there soon. That is if they don't kill him first from lack of appropriate medical treatment:(

I do hope he gets the medical treatment he needs! Or into a place that will give it to him!

I was just surfing around last night. While this is information not ususally seeked out by us...it gives some details as to what this place was built for (and at what cost, lol).
Some interesting facts....from the builder ya know!

Thanks, he's apparently out to the hospital now as I've not heard from him for several days. I know they are taking care of him, it's just that they're not doing it as efficiently as it could, and should, be done and thus are causing him to endure more than he needs to...more than any person should be made to:(

I find it so ironic that they built this place where they did. Trust me, there are no jobs in Southeastern Kentucky, but the people fail to realize that most of the positions at the prison will not be filled with locals, they will be filled by transferred BOPers.

Funniest thing about this is that drug dealing, political corruption, and bootlegging are the industries that support so many around here, (not that there aren't honest hard-working people too, but the pay isn't much and I know that first hand), so more of the locals are bound to end up as "guests" of the BOP rather than employees.

What we really need is an industry that can actually hire some of the locals, manufacturing, or something, but unfortunately Kentucky is not very receptive, or friendly, toward businesses.