From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for May 12, 1974:

Reassurance appeared to be the purpose behind a special press conference held this week by the Douglas County Commission on the topic of the proposed county-city judicial law enforcement building. The county chapter of the Kansas Council on Crime and Delinquency had appointed a watchdog committee the previous fall to see that recommendations of the Douglas County Committee on Jail Services and Correctional Facilities were implemented in the jail design. Elaine Vick, KCCD president, had informed the Journal-World that one of the main objections of the group was that all the detention space in the jail was maximum security. The National Clearinghouse on Corrections Programming and Architecture, which had worked with the local group in making jail recommendations, proposed that half of the detention space be maximum security, one-fourth minimum security and one-fourth medium security. Vick also noted the group’s opposition to juvenile detention facilities in the jail, saying that other alternatives were available. Officials responded with assurances that the juvenile facilities were separate from the rest of the detention area.