What Is the Purpose of This Weird Door?

Core77 directs our attention to this unusual door manufactured by the New Jersey-based firm Construction Specialties. The door has a door inside. Why? The answer is below the fold.

This is a barrier-resistant door. It's made with mental health facilities in mind. If a patient barricades him or herself inside, staff can still force entry with an inner door that opens into the exterior space. A patient might be able to barricade the outer door, but not the inner one.


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Too bad the facility we put dad in didn't have these. We had to bring him home after just a month because paying for the facility plus privately hired fulltime caregivers was draining the bank accounts. So now he's at home with 24/7 caregivers. At least we don't have to pay for the facility too.
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I've seen these in use. Where you can't modify the door frame, having nested doors where one swings inward and the other swings outward gives full control to the facility owner to maintain access.
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I'd think it would be too easy for a patient to jam small foreign objects into the key mechanism (from the outside) then barricade oneself, slowing down ingress for up to maybe an hour.
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