Hudson County Expands With Kitchen Facility, Housing Unit

KEARNY, N.J. — An expansion to the Hudson County Correctional Center is nearing completion and officials are preparing to move inmates into the new facilities, which will allow the county to better accommodate inmate population growth.


The jail was originally designed in the late 1980s to provide cell space for 750 inmates, but during the 1990s the facility’s intended capacity nearly doubled, according to project architect Peter Krasnow, who replaced MZA+KMD as architect of record during the final 20 percent of construction.






The $38.2 million project included upgrading the physical plant to improve services and security and a new housing building with a kitchen was also erected.


The six-story housing building includes 116,780 gross square feet of new construction with eight 64-bed housing units that are dispersed on four floors, with two units on each floor. The minimum-security units allow for low-risk offenders to be housed in a dormitory setting instead of the maximum-security cell environment that was previously used.


The centralized kitchen facility included in the project can support 2,000 inmates and facility staff.


 See more photos on page 32 of the Sept/Oct 2006 issue of Correctional News.