SELECTED PROJECT:
Union Correctional Institute

Johnson/Peterson designed this 50-bed Mental Health Treatment Facility as a maximum security facility to serve inmates from the Union Correctional Institution and the Florida State Prison, as well as other inmates who are considered high security risks. The main section of the building houses the administration areas, psychiatric and human services offices, conference room, medical examination rooms, and the security control station. Four housing wings extend from a central core with two nursing stations and four dayrooms. Two of the four wings are known as the Crisis Stabilization Unit. The CSU provides a highly structured setting for evaluation, care and treatment of inmates who are experiencing acute psychiatric symptoms and/or disorder. A group therapy room is adjacent to the CSU. The two remaining wings are called the Transitional Care Unit, which provides a less structured setting than the CSU. The TSU wings are used for the care and treatment of inmates who require psychiatric stabilization or rehabilitation before they can be safely and adequately housed within the general inmate population and treated on an outpatient basis. The TSU consists of 34 cells and two special suicide rooms. This 16,448 SF project was completed in 1993 at a construction cost of $2,300,000. An additional phase with a 12,000 SF separate building consisting of administrative and out-patient type services for inmates was completed in the spring of 1997. A fourth phase connecting the two earlier phases and adding another TSU wing was completed in late 1997. Total construction cost for these two additional phases was $2.7 million.

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