Background and History of CSP. The Colorado State Penitentiary (CSP) is a State owned and operated Level V Security correctional institution for adult male offenders, with a current rated capacity of 756 offenders. CSP is located within the East Cañon City Prison Complex (ECCPC) of correctional institutions and support facilities. The CSP facility is prominently located along Xxxxx Boulevard, the main access road to ECCPC off of State Highway 50, approximately two miles east of Cañon City, in Fremont County, Colorado. The facility is also highly visible from Highway 50, separated by approximately one-half mile of open field. Following completion of Phase I construction in 1993, CSP has served as the primary Level V Security facility in the CDOC system. Housing within CSP occurs in three separate towers surrounding support, programs and administration space. Each tower consists of two housing units stacked, with each unit consisting of two tiers, a penthouse and basement/crawlspace areas. Each tower has one elevator, used primarily for vertical transportation for daily service and program delivery, and occasional offender movement, mostly to Intake and Medical. The initial operational intent of the facility was to allow no offenders access to any part of the CSP facility outside its exterior walls. As such, two unique design responses came about as a result of this intent. First, the building’s exterior wall was considered one of the two required lines in the facility’s secure perimeter; the second line being a single row of security fencing with no razor ribbon wire. Therefore, “no-man’s land”, or the space between the inner and outer perimeter lines where no offender is allowed, is considered all the space from the exterior walls outward to the single perimeter fence. Second, outdoor exercise rooms were designed as a part of the building’s interior space and are accessed from each dayroom. There is one outdoor exercise room for every eight offenders, one on each tier. In Phase I construction (Tower 2 C/D units and Tower 3 E/F units), the exercise rooms are 92 square feet with an eight-foot high concrete ceiling. In Phase II construction (Tower 1 A/B units), the design was slightly modified and the exercise rooms are 137 square feet with an eight-foot high concrete ceiling. In both phases, the exercise rooms are lit, unheated, have security glazed doors and windows facing the dayroom and have two tall narrow openings, approximately six inches wide by five feet tall, facing the exterior....
