- What a Struggling Jail Means for Investors, Small Towns
Rhode Island’s Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility has struggled since officials at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement pulled out their detainees in 2008, following the death of a Chinese national held there. That pullout happened shortly after the facility expanded to hold 770 detained people....[
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Wall Street Journal, Thursday, October 16, 2014
- Jail officials hope new body scanners will cut back on contraband
SOUTH SALT LAKE — The image is quite clear.
The X-ray quality picture showed that hidden inside the inmate's body was a knife. It's something that likely would have gone undetected if not for a new body imaging machine....[
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Deseret News, Thursday, September 25, 2014
- Guest: The havoc of competing for jail contracts
COMPETITION and the profit motive is the foundation of the American economy, but should it drive the delivery of sensitive government services such as adult detention? For decades, detention policy was pretty simple: Counties operated jails, felons went to county jails, and cities contracted with counties to house their misdemeanants. Some cities operated very small jails but, for the most part, counties provided jail services....[
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Seattle Times, Monday, July 28, 2014
- Sheriffs weigh selling e-cigarettes to inmates
AUSTIN, TEXAS (Texas Tribune) - As a way to allow some inmates to get their nicotine fix and sheriffs to shore up tight budgets, county jails across the country have begun selling electronic cigarettes. Though the trend has largely bypassed Texas, jail officials say that could change as sheriffs begin to warm up to the smokeless technology. ...[
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KGNS, Monday, July 21, 2014
- Sheriff Pioneers New Secure Technology for Effingham Jail -- All at No Cost to Taxpayers!
EFFINGHAM COUNTY, GA. — This year marks a new era for Effingham, as they became the first county in the Southeast to install wireless inmate tablet technology....[
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Fort Mill Times, Friday, May 23, 2014
- Company aims to unlock jail software market with biometric expertise Northern Irish firm breaks into US prison market with new technology for inmates to communicate with family
Not so long ago, working in the security sector in Northern Ireland could have got you killed, according to Patricia O’Hagan, managing director of Belfast-based Core Systems....[
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Irish Times, Monday, April 21, 2014
- CCA Announces David Garfinkle to Succeed Todd Mullenger as Chief Financial Officer
NASHVILLE, TN, Apr 10, 2014 (Marketwired via COMTEX) -- CCA CXW -1.12% (the "Company" or "Corrections Corporation of America"), America's largest owner of partnership correctional and detention facilities, announced today that David Garfinkle, who currently serves as the Company's Vice President of Finance and Controller, has been selected by the Board of Directors to succeed Todd Mullenger as the Company's Chief Financial Officer effective May 1, 2014. Mullenger has decided to step down as CFO, but will remain with the Company for a two-year period to assist in the transition and to assist in various projects....[
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MarketWatch, Thursday, April 10, 2014
- Prison Inmates Taught Tech Skills To Help Get Jobs
Two weeks after being released from a California state prison where he spent nearly two decades, 45-year-old Kenyatta Leal was immersed in technology at a San Francisco startup....[
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Investor's Business Daily, Monday, April 7, 2014
- Orleans sheriff overcharged city for ankle monitoring program, inspector general finds
Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman overcharged the city for an ankle-monitoring program for criminal defendants and Mayor Mitch Landrieu's administration did not catch the errors, according to a report released Wednesday by the city's inspector general....[
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Times-Picayune, Wednesday, April 2, 2014
- Securus Technologies, Inc. Expands Call Center Staff by 25% as Business Client Growth Continues
DALLAS, April 2, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Securus Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of inmate communications services, investigative technologies, corrections/law enforcement/ emergency information technology services, and active global positioning systems (GPS) based offender monitoring devices announced today that it will expand its Call Center Associate staff by roughly 25%....[
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PRNewswire, Wednesday, April 2, 2014
- Judge backs NC prison staffers being required to use hand-held cameras
RALEIGH (AP) — A federal judge agreed Thursday with an outside expert who recommends that North Carolina Central Prison staffers should use hand-held cameras to record how some prisoners are treated by guards after force is used to subdue the inmates....[
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Associated Press, Thursday, March 27, 2014
- Securus Technologies, Inc. and NCIC Inmate Phone Service Strike a Strategic Patent Licensing Agreement
DALLAS, March 27, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Securus Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of inmate communications services, investigative technologies, corrections/law enforcement/ emergency information technology services, and active global positioning systems (GPS) based offender monitoring devices announced today the execution of a strategic patent licensing agreement with NCIC Inmate Phone Service.
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PRNewswire, Thursday, March 27, 2014
- Davis to join tech startup fighting crime ; Mark43 analyzes data and streamlines records
In an unlikely next move for career law officer Edward F. Davis, the former Boston police commissioner is joining a tech startup.
Davis will take a board seat with Mark43, a company founded by three Harvard University graduates that has been making big waves in the law enforcement community....[
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Boston Globe, Thursday, February 27, 2014
- Poor jail design 'caused riots' - city academic; 1,600 capacity Midland super-prison is 'ant farm'.
ACADEMICS say outbreaks of serious violence at an under-fire Midland 'superprison' could be down to bad design - and recommended removing the bars on windows. ...[
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Birmingham Post, Thursday, February 13, 2014
- Marshall University Forensic Science DNA analyst presents property crimes research
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Season E. Seferyn, M.S.F.S., a Parentage DNA analyst at the Marshall University Forensic Science Center, presented findings from a property crimes project at a conference sponsored by the International Association of Chiefs of Police.
The presentation titled, “A Comparison of 1,600 Property Crime Cases from Miami, Florida, and Charleston, South Carolina,” addressed findings from DNA test results of evidentiary items recovered from crime scenes from each jurisdiction....[
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US Fed News, Friday, February 7, 2014
- Belfast-designed bio-metric technology is changing the way prisons operate around the world
Patricia O'Hagan heads up Core Systems which is behind the software which drives security systems in a growing number of jails in the UK and US, and other corners of the world....[
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Belfast Telegraph, Monday, December 16, 2013
- Kansas using Facebook to nab parole absconders
Kansas prison officials are turning to Facebook to help find people who skip out on court-mandated parole....[
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Associated Press, Wednesday, September 25, 2013
- The Technology Advantage: Using Shoulder-Mounted Cameras Within a Detention Facility
This article describes how the detention center in Charleston County, South Carolina, came to equip its special operations tactical teams with shoulder-mounted video cameras that record situations as they unfold. Because partner team members each wear a camera, two views are captured of every incident. The recordings have proven to be very helpful in after-action reviews by leadership and for evidentiary purposes....[
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National Institute of Corrections, Tuesday, August 20, 2013
- Jail suffers computer glitches
new computer system installed over the weekend at the Fresno County Jail has led to delays in the inmate booking process ...[
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Fresno Bee, Friday, June 8, 2007
- Dial-a-breathalyzer: Gadget monitors county inmates
A black box equipped with a bendable straw can detect the slightest amount of booze......[
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HeraldNet , Friday, June 8, 2007
- Microchips bad idea
that would give prisons around-the-clock supervision of an inmate...[
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Muskogee Daily Phoenix , Sunday, June 3, 2007
- GPS tracking of offenders
Utah firm's TrackerPAL sets 'invisible fence'
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Deseret News , Sunday, June 3, 2007
- Nevada Department of Corrections Selects Blue Coat to Optimize WAN for New Inmate Tracking System
Blue Coat Systems, Inc. , the leader in secure content and application delivery, today announced that the Nevada Department of Corrections (NDOC), the state's largest agency, has selected Blue Coat(R) SG(TM) appliances to optimize ...[
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TMC Net , Tuesday, May 15, 2007