… being required to be a certain height off the ground? For example, the bunks can’t just be matresses on the ground.
This is just what I have heard from word of mouth. I am pretty sure it has something to do with health code, but what is the exact rationale?
Says who? I don’t know about penitentiaries, but the drunk tank at Wildwood Correctional Center in Kenai, Alaska is a vinyl covered mattress on the floor.
Not necessarily health code, because some Super-Max prisons have solid concrete slabs with a matress on top as beds.
A lot of prisons require the inmates to store their personal gear in lock boxes of a standard size. Perhaps the beds are at a certain height to accomodate those?
When I 1st moved into my house I had a mattress on the floor, and they get bunks! :mad:
I don’t know about health codes, but they have to be easily repaired, high enough off the floor so that looking underneath during searches is easily carried out.
The structure is such that when dissasembled, the parts are not strong enough in sideways motion to be used as prybars, and not long enough to construct a suspension point for hanging, as in suicide attempts.
Beds and other cell furniture in segregation unit cells are made from a from of cardboard compress papier mache stuff, which makes them extremely light, one piece and not a useful source of weaponry.
Preferably they can only be dissasembled with spanners.
They are, not surprisingly, of a standard size, prisoners who are very tall find this is a problem.