CONVICT LABOR FOR ROAD WORK. 
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vision for the joining of several buildings, into buildings 18 by 36 
feet, 18 by 54 feet, or larger. They are adaptable for either guarded 
or honor camps and for all the purposes of such camps, as for con- 
victs' sleeping quarters, mess halls, kitchens, storehouses, lavato- 
ries, and baths, and for guards' and superintendents' quarters, or 
office buildings. As sleeping quarters each 18 by 18 foot building 
will accommodate a maximum of 16 persons, by the use of double- 
decked metal cots arranged 
along each side of the build- 
ing with their length per- 
pendicular to the walls, 
which arrangement pro- 
vides for an aisle of 4^ feet 
down the center. With 
this maximum number of 
inmates, the building pro- 
vides approximately 20 
square feet of floor space 
and 200 cubic feet of air 
space per inmate, which 
allowance, in view of the 
excellent means of venti- 
lation provided, is entirely 
adequate. Window spaces, 
42 inches deep, closed by 
solid wooden shutters and 
glazed sashes, extend the 
full length of all sides of 
the building, with the ex- 
ception of the space neces- 
sary for doors, and by open- 
ing these windows in sum- 
mer it is possible to keep 
the air inside the buildings 
down to the temperature 
of the outer air. The shut- 
ters and windows are hinged at the top and swing outward, and when 
they are open they act as awnings for protection from the weather. 
All doors and windows are provided with 16-mesh galvanized-wire 
screens. Security can be provided in guarded camps by barring the 
windows, by chaining the prisoners to their bunks, and by the in- 
sertion of a cage vestibule inside one of the doors of the sleeping 
quarters as a station for the armed night guard. Such a cage may be 
constructed of No. 5 steel-wire screening with a 2-inch mesh (fig. 8). 
* 5 steel wire 
screen, 2" mesh 
Fig. 8.— Cage vestibule. 
