Enhancing security at Correctional Facilities and Prisons

A famous county prison that was established more than fifty years ago at the state of Ohio was mainly built to be operated and run manually just like all the other prisons and correctional buildings in that period of time. This was easily noticed in every aspect of the prison that could accommodate about seventy inmates. The officials of the prison implemented the manual plan of operations down to the locks of the cell doors, which were built based on the mechanical key-to-lock design.
As can be expected, the manual reality of the locking system created copious amounts of logistical, and safety obstacles for corrections staff when transporting the prisoner residents to destination locations within the building. In spite of of whether the prisoners needed to use the law library, required bathing grooming services, educational program attendance, to meet with legal counsel, or demanded medical attention every movement had to be carried out in a manual manner, which required the guards to physically lock and unlock the cell door of each resident on a daily basis not to mention that this could also occur several times of the daytime.
The county officials finally decided it was time to build a new facility especially after they noticed the old age of the jail and it's over crowdedness. A leading sheriff of the prison was thoroughly immersed in the process to establish a new correctional facility with enhanced, state-of-the-art machinery and management interfaces.
Consequently, the officials of the county started taking bids on the systems incorporation module of its new jail construction development, and considered bids from three integrators of security utilities. The head sheriff of the facility persisted on examining past projects specifically completed by a particular famous security integration company, a corporate branch of a major Security Solutions company and a supplier of integrated access management and security equipment. Upon making a quick tour of its present customer locations and assessing its capabilities, the county was very pleased with the security company. After a small brainstorming session the county finally granted the company a contract to supply an extensive electronic correctional security system for its correctional facility.

Technology of the future
Although the actual construction was planned to take place in a couple of months, the security incorporation company rapidly developed and began examining the facility's integrated electronic security interface, which was primarily made up of seven touch-screen management units, four graphic displays, more than two hundred controlled and monitored gates, over a hundred and fifty intercom units, a hundred and sixty proximity readers and just over a hundred cameras for surveillance. Not to mention that the county correctional facility transition squad also had the privilege of visiting the manufacturing location in order to review the fully-operational interface weeks preceding the actual deployment in the correctional facility.
The chief sheriff of the prison facility also noted that the ability to stopover the supplying plant and view the operation of the system before it was finally deployed was very useful to their planning and organization team, on top of that, it also enabled them to get a good overall image and an accurate sense for how the interface would operate in a real-world setting. Also, they were able to choose further available improvements to the system that were not provided by any other incorporating company, including a transportable touch-screen feature that could be managed via handheld PDAs and intercom audio recording to the logging information of the interface.
As the installation process went on, the newly built adjacent prison facility was finally completed and awaiting the deployment of the inmates into its facility. As a direct result, the correctional facility has ordered an additional touch screen afterwards, which will be positioned in the facility's central management department. On top of that the facility also has added more than fifty proximity readers to the initial installation. The new security system can now integrate and communicate with the facility maintenance area and the newly established emergency procedures department, situated in the basement of the old property, via fiber for the incorporated management interface.
The correction facility was finally able to considerably maximize its inmate monitoring competence, thanks to the deployment of security electronics interface. The spontaneous and measurable nature of the touch-screens, as well as its simplicity of modification enables a single corrections guard to view the actions of more than forty inmates at a time where only a little over twenty inmates were allowed to be monitored.
The chief sheriff of the facility was especially pleased since staffing was always a concern in the correctional atmosphere, and by utilizing the security integration company integrated security electronic system, they now had the ability to operate their staff members a lot more resourcefully. On top of that, with the new construction of the facility and with the utilization of the various security cameras, everything can now be conducted within the housing units in place of the constant movement mandated in the old building.

Realizing the advantages
If one looks at it from a view point of communications and safety, workers in the old prison facility only had two-way radios system that were not able to trace the location of a guard in a risky situation. With the assimilation of the integrated threat system trait, added with a camera element, the guard now has the capability to locate an officer in danger via the touch-screen panel, observe and area via the cameras and take action as needed. The preceding interface and procedure demeaned every available staff member to respond to a dangerous circumstance, resulting in a meager utilization of resources and forming potential surveillance susceptibilities.
In addition to that, the new system also contributes to expenditure and time saving advantages.
The facility's manager pointed out that due to the fact that the old facility was based on a mechanical lock and key structured establishment, if a key happened to get lost, the guards and workers would lock down the entire building in order to trace the location of that specific key, which, and after all that if the key was not found the workers would have to literally change out the locks in the entire facility to guarantee the safety and security of the vicinity. On the other hand, thanks to the new electronic access system that uses proximity readers, if someone loses their security badge, the security managers can easily delete the access privilege from the network without ever having to replace the locks and without the threat of having that key fall into the hands of a potential criminal or evildoer. Without a shadow of a doubt this methodology ends up saving the facility tremendous amounts of time and money while improving the level of security continuously.
An added feature of the system is the employees control advantages the system supplies including the logging information system which offers an audit trail and record of every action conducted by each system supervisor.
Moreover, whereas the old property used an out-of-date time/clock interface, the new information logging trait has the capability to automatically log and trace the action of each guard within the building, identify which staff member is at which touch-screen panel and observe all events taken place within every workers' region of management.
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