Location: Beattyville, Kentucky

The Three Forks Regional Jail is a 154-bed full-service, standard compliant regional jail housing male and female adult offenders.   This is a single story 26,000 square foot building housing all inmate classifications including detoxification and secure holding spaces.   Inmate supervision type is indirect, with the control room located near all housing to easily view a majority of the male inmate housing areas.

Included in this facility are programming spaces, i.e., 2 classrooms, 2 multi-purpose rooms, 2 outdoor recreation areas, a visitation area and an exceptionally large dayroom.   Program and support spaces were oversized to allow for future expansion of the facility.

This is a unique jail in that it is a “true” regional jail.   This is the only second such jail constructed in Kentucky , the other one is the Big Sandy Regional Jail located in Paintsville which was also designed by DCI + CMW.   A true regional jail is one in which two or more counties come together and form a legally binding Regional Jail Authority Board to provide funding, design direction, and operational direction of a jail to be used by each of the participating Counties.   The Three Forks Regional Jail is owned jointly by Lee, Owsley and Wolfe Counties .   As the full service architect and engineering firm on this Project, we were involved with every aspect from early feasibility studies, through programming and design, to meeting with representatives from each of the three Counties in developing the qualifications necessary for proper staffing and operational requirements of the facility.   Further, we assisted with the evaluation of the Project and construction budgets and represented the design component of the Project with the Jail Authority in meeting before the State Department for Local Government.