So currently you're inside
the vehicle Sally Port.
This is where every inmate that
gets arrested in the sitting county,
Denver or gets arrested anywhere and
is brought to the city and county,
Denver to be processed
into the downtown detention center. There
is inmates that are coming here for courts.
There's inmates that are coming
here that have been sentenced.
There's inmates that are coming here for.
I'll just to be held
depending on their sentence,
whatever their court status is,
they read in for a variety of reasons.
Whoever the arresting agency is,
whether it's Denver police or US
Marshalls or parole or anybody,
they search them and they take off
all of their personal belongings.
So that's your keys,
cell phones, watches, necklace,
that kind of stuff when they hit us,
we start telling them that anything
that we take off of them at this point
becomes introduction of contraband,
which is another felony charge.
We've got a list of rules of things
that are not allowed inside of our
facility and we try to here to that and
make sure that they're not bringing
them inside of our facility. When
we take custodies inside the Sally port.
Once they hit the Sally port,
we do another search on them,
regardless of if anybody
searched them before and we'll
remove more stuff off of them.
We found everything from guns to drugs to
knives. We find just about
anything you could imagine.
Once it hits our threshold.
This is essentially Step 2.
Basically, once we take custody of the
the person that's getting arrested,
they'll come into our facility
through the Sally port.
They'll go through the metal detector,
they get their photo taken a front
view and a side view, and then we
take their index print right here.
This is very crucial.
This is where we'll take all of
their information, their name,
date of birth, descriptors of the person,
height, weight, race,
all that kind of information.
The design was really focused
around more of a waiting room to
try and calm people's nerves,
the old city.
Mail that I worked at for eight years
was very isolated when you came in,
you went into a cell.
You were in a cell that had 60 people in it.
This is designed for open waiting style.
There's TV's on the wall so it
gives them a little something to do
while they're sitting out there.
It gives them a little bit more
comfort where they're actual chairs.
They can sit down.
It's not a concrete bench,
it's just more of a like a waiting room.
So it helps to calm people down
and realize this is just kind
of a business you're coming in.
You're getting process, these people.
Here are waiting to be processed in and
once we get somebody that's uncooperative,
they don't want to do what
we're asking them to do.
They want to resist in the
process anything they'll get put
in one of these operations.
So now stay in there for a period
of time until they're ready
to cooperate or they sober up.
So if somebody comes in there and toxicated,
we'll put them in these cells
to separate them out.
So this is the booking station.
This is where everybody that comes into
our facility gets processed into our system.
We take their home address,
we take their next of kin,
that kind of information.
If something happens to us.
To them, while they're in our custody,
who do they want us to notify?
Also when they get released?
If we had property they were missing,
we find it.
It also gives us contact info for us to
get ahold of them once they get out,
then sign these red squares.
They'll inventory all their
property that they came in,
with all their valuables,
which would be cell phones,
watches, jewelry,
that kind of thing and inventory
under camera.
All of these desks have a camera
that goes directly down on it so that
we can document and capture that.
What we do at the very beginning
is just take an index print.
That index print they use to try
and identify the person when they
first come into custody.
Over here we take a full set of 10
prints so we take all their fingerprints.
The difference is that set of 10
prints is what puts the charge
that they're being arrested on
their criminal
history. So anytime somebody comes into
custody, they get a 10 print and then
whatever they're charged is so that
goes over for their criminal history.
So it's recorded everybody that comes
into our facility gets seen by medical,
regardless of whatever.
They're facing at that time,
so it's very important for us to know
what somebody's medical history is
when they come into our facilities.
When they come into our facilities,
they could have a variety.
If it's diabetic,
or something more serious,
then the nurses here that work for
Denver health and are contracted through
Denver need to know that information
so that if something happens to them,
they can give them the medical
care that they need.
There's one side of things
is just straight medical.
The other side is behavioral health and we.
Offer behavior health to every inmate
that comes into this facility.
If they can identify that they're having
some sort of mental health crisis,
then we can start treating them for
it before they even get upstairs.
So behavioral health is down an intake 24/7,
so when they hit our doors,
if we can identify they're having
that crisis right now,
then we can start treating them for it,
and they'll start treating them
for it right away.
They can verify their medications,
give them the medications that they need,
and then we can better manage
them once they get upstairs.
So this is classification.
This is the last step in.
Process and intake.
What happens here is when an
individual comes into custody,
they research and look at all of their
previous incarcerations to see what
kind of issues they've had in the past.
They look at other facilities incarceration
records to see if they've had issues there,
and then that determines where
they're going to be housed.
So we have different classification
levels throughout our facility.
So each housing unit has its
own classification level,
and this is where it starts.
So this is what tells them what
area they're going to be housed in.
It's important.
For everybody's safety,
if we got somebody in here,
that's that's a real high class level.
Say it's a notorious crime.
We don't want them out with the
general population of somebody
that's in here for shoplifting.
There's a lot of potential for danger that
just when you think you've seen it all,
somebody comes up with something new.