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TeacherNolunteer Office Classrooms in Housing Unit on First Tier 77W Housing/Dayroom - This space is referred to as the "living unit" by the Board of State and Community Corrections (BSCC). It consists of sleeping rooms and adjacent dayroom space. Dayroom space is an area where the inmate can conduct passive and active activities, such TV, board games, reading, table _ - tennis, etc. Housing or sleeping rooms come in three forms including (1) single -occupancy sleeping rooms, (2) double -occupancy sleeping rooms, and (3) - dormitories. This functional use area occupies over fifty percent of the total space in a typical Jail. If the housing unit is locked from the dayroom, then the rooms are required to contain a toilet. Standards - Title 15 contains the operational standards for adult facilities. These include sections relating to fire and life safety, security, segregation, searches, discipline, suicide prevention, bedding and linen issue, hygiene, sanitation, etc. Title 24 relates to the size and adjacency requirements for living units. EXISTING CONDITIONS AT THE SANTA ANA CITY JAIL FACILITY The Santa Ana City Jail provides housing for U.S. Marshal, Bureau of Prisons, and some overflow from local agencies on the weekends. Occasionally, they house inmates that have failed out of halfway houses and hold them until they have either finished their sentence or their punishment. The Jail has 35.1 % of its total area in housing and dayroom space. There are nine living unit wings and two dormitories at the Jail. Units are operated as direct supervision units. Inmates take pill pass and meals in their housing units. The two dormitories in the facility have capacities of 14 and 18 inmates each. In 2009, a staging cell was converted to a dormitory to house federal inmates only. One dormitory is currently housing female inmates while the other is used as needed for Pay -to -Stay housing. Each dormitory contains portable chairs instead of fixed seats, stack -a -beds are available to house overflow INS prisoners overnight versus having them remain in the booking Area. Each dormitory has a multi -toilet room near the back and is connected to the emergency center. To keep the males and females separate, there are large curtains used to cover dormitory windows. In-person visitation is not available for inmates housed in this area of the facility. Video terminals are provided for video visitation. Additionally, there are seven pods that each contain 32 double -occupancy cells located on the third- and fourth -floors. Additionally, there are two pods each containing 16 single cells for the administrative segregation (Ad Seg) and disciplinary isolation populations on the fourth -floor. Other than unit 4C as it is adjacent to the Ad Seg unit, each unit has shared walls that can be retracted (roll -up into ceiling) and Appendix 8. 65A-179