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HOLT CORRECTIONAL FACILITY MENTAL HEALTH HOUSING PODS DESIGN UPDATE
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
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This item provides the Board with an update on the design of the Holt Correctional Facility Mental Health Housing Pods at the Martin County Jail. The State approved funding for the design in 2024. The conceptual design phase is complete and includes two pods that expand classification capacity, improve inmate and staff safety, and provide specialized housing for the growing mental health population.
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DEPARTMENT: General Services
PREPARED BY: Name: Sean C. Donahue, P.E., B.C.A.
Title: General Services Director
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PRESET: 2:00 PM
PROCEDURES: None
BACKGROUND/RELATED STRATEGIC GOAL:
Martin County received State appropriation funding in July of 2024 in the amount of $500,000 to complete the schematic design of the Holt Correctional Facility Mental Health Housing Pods. In January of 2025, Securitecture, LLC was selected as the design architect for the project.
The conceptual design includes two housing pods with specialized spaces for mental health treatment, suicide watch cells, classroom training, ADA-compliant units, shelter care, and administrative or disciplinary segregation. The new pods were designed to address a lack of treatment beds, insufficient cell blocks for special populations, and limitations in safely classifying and separating inmates by mental health needs, security level, or gender.
In 2025 the Martin County Sheriff's Office created the PRISM (Public Safety, Rehabilitation, Intervention, Stabilization, Mental Health) model to provide a framework that balances public safety with rehabilitation and stabilization, creating safer conditions for staff and inmates while reducing risk to the general inmate population and the Sheriff's staff.
ISSUES:
* Current facility lacks adequate beds and treatment space for a growing mental health population.
* Inability to sa...
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