Fenced and Gated?

Campus Privacy, Access, and Public Engagement

RISS is designed as a campus, not as a correctional facility.

The majority of the campus will be surrounded by a perimeter fence with gated access. That fence is not intended to create isolation, confinement, or correctional-style control. It exists for a different reason: privacy, order, safety, and clear management of who is on the campus at any given time.

Residents will not be under curfew. Residents will have 24-hour access to the gates and the ability to come and go. The campus is not designed to lock people in. It is designed to give residents a stable place to live, work, learn, recover, and rebuild while still remaining connected to the surrounding community.

The access model is similar to many ordinary residential and institutional environments. Military installations, barracks, gated communities, apartment and condo buildings with concierge desks, senior living communities, and retirement communities often require visitors to check in and check out. That does not make those places correctional. It means the community has standards, boundaries, and responsibility for the people who live there.

RISS will require guests to be signed in and signed out. This protects residents, staff, volunteers, visitors, and the campus itself. It also allows the organization to maintain a professional environment without treating residents as prisoners.

Just as importantly, RISS is not designed to be closed off from the public. Several public-facing areas of the campus will be located outside the primary residential fence line. The industries and workforce areas will sit within the wider vehicle-access fence, with public access available during specific operating hours each day for customers, partners, and community members.

The campus will also host numerous activities, classes, events, volunteer opportunities, community gatherings, and public-facing programs where guests will be invited inside.

So the purpose of the fence is not isolation. It is not separation from the world. It is not a signal that residents are being hidden away.

It is privacy with access.
It is structure without confinement.
It is community with boundaries.
It is a residential campus designed to be stable, professional, and open to the public in intentional ways.

RISS is not removing residents from the community. It is building a place where residents can reenter the community from a position of stability.