$16.7M Upgrades Proposed For Jail – All Otsego

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COUNTY BOARD APRIL MEETING

$16.7M Upgrades

Proposed For Jail

Here's an artist's rending from Salt Lake County, Utah, of a "pod" plan that allows a single corrections officer to survey a whole cell block. A consultant proposed a 32-cell triangular pod be added to the Otsego County jail.
Here's an artist's rending from Salt Lake County, Utah, of a "pod" plan that allows a single corrections officer to survey a whole cell block. A consultant proposed a 32-cell triangular pod be added to the Otsego County jail.

32-Cell "Pod" Would Let One Officer 

Survey Whole Block From One Post

By JIM KEVLIN • for www.AllOTSEGO.com

Consultant Mark Kukuvka from Labella Associates of Rochester outlines $16.7 million in possible improvements to the Otsego County jail. (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com)
Consultant Mark Kukuvka from Labella Associates of Rochester outlines $16.7 million in possible improvements to the Otsego County jail. (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com)

COOPERSTOWN – An engineering firm specializing in prisons this morning proposed $16.8 million in renovations and expansions to  the 25-year-old Otsego County Correctional Facility at The Meadows, including a futuristic 32-cell “pod” addition , to the county Board of Representatives.

Which begged the question, and county Rep. Len Carson, R-Oneonta, asked it:  “What would it cost to build a new facililty?”

The answer from Mark Kukuvka, representing Labella Associates of Rochester: $35 million, if one now being built by Herkimer County were the model.

Short of a new prison, Kukuvka outlined three options:

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