Storage Solved ® When the Pinellas County Sheriff’ s Office Jail in Largo, Fla., ran out of space in their jail due to inmate overcrowding, it built a new 796-bed facility and outfitted it with Spacesaver mobile storage systems to maximize bed space and minimize ancillary support space. “We used Spacesaver shelving in an old building and loved it,” explained Richard Bailey, administrative sergeant. “When we were planning the new facility it was important to maximize inmate bed space; it helped to justify the construction costs to taxpayers. T o do that, we needed to minimize support space such as storage areas.” Bailey explained that Pinellas County had used Spacesaver systems in a classification area in the old jail and knew that compact storage could solve its space concerns

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