The hallways of the Park County Detention Center should soon echo a bit less a bit less.
Jail staff got the go-ahead from county commissioners on Tuesday to install sound-absorbing “Echo Eliminator” panels at the facility.
Reverberating sounds have been an issue since the jail opened in 2006, said Lt. Rick Atwood, the detention center administrator.
The problem, put simply, is that inmates at the jail are serving hard time — literally.
“Basically, there’s no soft surfaces in our building,” said Atwood.
A total of 422 two-by-four foot burgundy wall panels, made of recycled cotton, will be slapped on jail walls. Those supplies, along with 85 tubes and 43 cans of adhesives, will run a total bill of $11,089.30, to cover some 3,376 square feet.
After the commission approved the project, Commissioner Jill Shockley Siggins asked why the one-inch thick panels were ordered in burgundy. She noted psychological studies that show that “red makes people angry.”
“Green would be more soothing in a jail,” Siggins suggested.
Atwood said the burgundy matches color in the jail's tiling, though he quipped that had it been up to him, the facility would have pink-inlaid flooring.
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