Environmental Assessment: Tule Lake Jail Public Scoping Newsletter #1, Summer 2014

The National Park Service seeks your input in the restoration of the Tule Lake Segregation Center jail. The National Park Service is designing a plan for the Jail that reflects the perspectives of those who feel connected to the site. It is through your cooperation that the National Park Service will be able to share its valuable lessons with the public and act as a catalyst in telling this important American story.

Topic Questions:

1. What issues or concern do you have about the jail restoration project?

2. What hopes, preferences, or expectations do you have for the visitor experience at the jail in the future?

3. While the current project is focused just on the jail building itself, historically the jail was part of the larger stockade area. How do you think the jail restoration relates to the future interpretation or recreation of other parts of the stockade?

4. While visitor center functions are not intended for the jail building, exhibits may be part of the future interpretation plans for the building. To what degree do you feel exhibits should be inside the building versus keeping the building more as it appeared when it was originally built?

5. Since not all interior pieces like bunks and plumbing fixtures currently exist, how important do you feel it is to restore these items through the entire interior versus, for example, fully restoring a representative cell?

6. Since photodocumentation is limited for the jail, and that now that there is a specific project on the jail, we would like to solicit any recollections about how the building and site were used, furnished, etc. Do you have firsthand knowledge of how the jail looked like? Do you have photos that you would like to share?

7. Do you know what happened in each of the administration rooms?

8. Do you know what was the enclosed rear yard was used for? Since the rear yard is fenced, the assumption is that every inmate came and left through the front, is that correct?

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