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Safety and Security <br />(Leavitt 1999 personal communication). This arrangement does not meet the standazds set out in <br />the United States Courts Design Guide (U.S. Courts 1997). <br />While in secure holding cells awaiting court proceedings, detainees generally do not wear <br />restraints. While being moved about within the Eugene federal building/courthouse, prisoners <br />are handcuffed with hands behind their backs but do not wear leg irons. While prisoners are in <br />court, handcuffs and shackles aze generally removed, but leg irons aze sometimes left on. A <br />guard is posted at the courtroom entrance to prevent escape or other unlawful incidents. <br />Holding Facilities, Detention Facilities, and Prisoner Releases <br />To ensure safety, it is preferable to have separate facilities for men, women, juveniles (both male <br />and female), and protective witnesses (Leavitt 1999 personal communication). The existing <br />Eugene .federal building/courthouse includes two holding cells, each of which can hold a <br />maximum of 12 prisoners. There are no sepazate cells for juvenile detainees or those requiring <br />special handling. The number and size of holding cells are also inadequate to handle the number <br />of prisoners currently passing through the Eugene federal building/courthouse, and overcrowding <br />sometimes occurs in the holding cells. When the holding cells are overcrowded, it becomes <br />difficult to maintain safety for staff and detainees (Leavitt 1999 personal communication). <br />The existing Eugene federal building/courthouse does not have detention facilities. Detainees <br />aze removed from the courthouse every evening and are either remanded to the facility from <br />which they came, transferred to another facility after being sentenced, or released. Persons <br />released from custody at the Eugene courthouse have been either acquitted of chazges, released <br />on bail or bond, or released after being sentenced to time already served. The federal Bail <br />Reform Act requires that individuals released from custody on bail or bond not be a danger to the <br />community, a flight risk, or a potential risk to witnesses (18 U.S.C. §§3141-3150, 3156). <br />Detainees aze released from the existing federal building/courthouse only during normal working <br />hours; none aze released during evening, night, or early morning hours or on weekends. Because <br />detainees are not held overnight, there is no threat of escape from the facility during non-working <br />hours. <br />Court Security <br />The existing federal building/courthouse in Eugene does not provide sepazate physical <br />circulation systems for court staff, prisoners, and the public. The lack of separate circulation <br />systems provides inmates with the opportunity to verbally or even physically assault court staff. <br />The lack of separate corridors provides court staff, particulazly judges, with inadequate <br />protection from disgruntled litigants or their friends and families. The lack of sepazate <br />circulation systems is a security risk because it does not eliminate potential interaction between <br />prisoners and the public. The current arrangement does not meet the standards set out in the <br />United States Courts Design Guide (LJ.S. Courts 1997). <br />Final EIS 152 New Federal Courthouse <br />