New Prison Policy Guidelines
Design Critera Guidelines
New Prison Space Standards
Prototypical Prison Drawings
Training
Larry's time as a Training Officer allowed him to develop training and other programs and materials still being used in California's Prison System today. These include:
On the Job Training Modules
Background Investigator Manual
Counselor Training and Manual
Background Investigator Training Academy (160 hours)
Since the early 1980s, the California Department of Corrections (CDC) has added a total of 21 new prisons and several prison additions adding 113,904 new beds to its prison system at a cost of $5.27 billion. During the 8 years Larry worked in the Design and Activation Branch of the Planning & Construction Division (P&CD) of the CDC, he was involved in the design, construction and/or activation of all 21 of the new prisons (as well as thethree - 500 bed and 8900 bed Emergency Bed Projects) and was the principal state design manager on 4 of new prisons. In addition, while in the P&CD, and as a Chief Deputy Warden and Warden, Larry was a member of the CDC Technology Transfer Committee for 6 years and evaluated and piloted a number of new correctional technologies. The following is only a partial listing of projects and technologies that LSA or its principal and associate consultants have worked on:
Projects
California Prisons:
Larry was a contributor to an American Correctional Association publication prepared under a National Institute of Corrections grant; entitled "Correctional Technology: A User's Guide".
Publications - Contributions
The Technology Transfer Committee of the California Department of Corrections has been a testing entity utilized by many government agencies outside of California. During Larry's 8 years as a committee member, he has reviewed and participated in the approval or rejection of more than 100 new or existing technologies and been responsible for piloting more than a dozen. SEE detail on 5 of those technologies in the left hand column on this page.)
Correctional Technology
Larry also worked on several other new prison projects as both an adjunct state representative and, occassionally, as a specialist assigned to develop or assist in designing particular and/or unique aspects of the prison's housing and security. These projects included: Avenal State Prison, Chuckawalla State Prison, Mule Creek State Prison, Salinas Valley State Prison, Northern California Women's Facility, California State Prison Solano, California State Prison Sacramento, Valley State Prison for Women, Southern Maximum Security Complex (now part of the California Correctional Institution), and three - 500 bed medium security additions in Jamestown, Tehachapi and Susanville.
Larry was the principal design manager on Pelican Bay State Prison, Corcoran State Prison, Centinela State Prison and Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility at Rock Mountain. Each of these prisons had a design and construction budget exceeding $200 million. Larry's role was the state security and user representative in the planning, design and construction phases, working with the architects, engineers, capital expenditure management team, state project director, construction manager, construction contractors and others. In this role, Larry was responsible for reviewing all design development documents including blueprints, plans, schematics, schedules and specifications to ensure appropriate security was incorporated into the physical plant being designed and built. He was also responsible for physical walk throughs during construction to identify and generate corrections or change orders as needed. Larry was also on the activation team of 2 of the new prisons: Corcoran State Prison and Centinela State Prison.
(Larry also work on the design of two medium rise reception centers which were never funded or built, but were designed through most of the stages of development. These were the Reception Center for downtown Los Angeles and for Marin County.)
Larry became the supervisor of the design managers in the P&CD, responsible for monitoring, approving and directing design development and construction for Pleasant Valley State Prison, Calipatria State Prison, Ironwood State Prison, Central California Women's Facility, California State Prison at Los Angeles County, California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison, High Desert State Prison, North Kern State Prison, Wasco State Prison, and the state's Emergency Bed Projects (emergency additional prison beds added to existing state prisons). In that capacity, Larry supervised the planning, design, review and construction work of the assigned principal design managers.
Prison Design and Construction
Emergency Operation
Correctional Technology: A User's Guide
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Prison Design and Construction Criteria & Prototypes
1) The TSI Prisim (Technology Systems International, inc.) which electronically monitors the location of every inmate, every 2 seconds and records their location. This technology gives an alarm should an inmate attempt to breach the defined perimeter of a prison. The technology also incorporates a Personal Alarm System for all staff which identifies the alarm by the individual staff member and their location (within 20 feet). Additionally, the technology allows for 'replaying' of everyone's location during an alarm or incident, allowing for a narrowing, or even, the identification, of the perpetrator of an incident.
Piloted the intallation and testing of the TSI Prism System and Inmate Tracking at Calipatria State Prison
2) The Identix Fingerprint Identification System positively identifies every person entering or egressing the prison perimeter and other controlled access areas. Larry was involved in the testing and original approval of this technology in the early 1990s, however, even though approved, the technology was not installed until 1998. The lack of inital implementation was a matter of monies. However, in 1998, Larry (as Chief Deputy Warden) purchased the system for installation at Centinela State Prison. Just prior to actual installation, several high profile incidents involving access/egress and tracking of staff inside or outside a prison occurred. As a result, the technology was identified for immediate installation in many medium and maximum security prisons in California. 10 of those installations are now complete, with additional installations in California Youth Authority Facilities.
Piloted the intallation and testing of the Identix Fingerprint Identification System for facility access and egress, and positive ID of all staff and visitors at Centinela State Prison.
3) The Hydro-Force Water Restraint System (WRS). The WRS delivers a combination of water and OC to the site of a disturbance in (as an example) a controlled yard situation (such as an Administrative Segregation Yard) and effectively diffuses a fight, violent incident or riot without staff one-on-one involvent. Following the piloting at Calipatria State Prison, the WRS was ordered installed at most medium and maximum security prisons in the State of California. Piloted the testing of the Hydro-Force Water Restraint System (WRS) at Calipatria State Prison.
4) The X-10 Cell Extractor was developed in response to cell extraction and barricade situations at Calipatria State Prison. The development was actually a result of Larry and a Lieutenant at Calipatria approaching Hydro-Force, inc. to develop the prototype and final version of the X-10. The X-10 has been approved and deployed throughout California's prison system.
One of the initiators and developers of the X-10 Cell Extractor at Calipatria State Prison in conjunction with
Hydro-Force, Inc.
5) Larry, along with 3 other design staff of the California Department of Corrections, originally suggested the concept of a lethal electrified fence in 1986. In the late 1990s, the concept became viable and Larry worked on the original design criteria and physical design specifications with Boyle Engineering. The Lethal Electrified Fence became a reality with installation at most of California's medium and maximum security prisons. The result has been zero escapes and a typical staff salary savings at a standard design prison in excess of $2.2 million per year, per prison.
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The Planning and Construction Division of the California Department of Corrections developed a number of policies/procedures and prototypical informaton and designs to aid in the new prison design and construction process. Larry was involved in the development of the following:
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Five Technologies of note are:
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