Prison Management Systems and Security

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Prison Management Systems and Security

• Janele Harmon
• CPSC 420
• 24 May 2007

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Overview

• Background
• Prison Management Needs and Software Solutions
• Examples

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Background

• U.S. Prison System Governing Bodies
• Department of Justice
• Federal Performance Based Detention Standards
  Review Book
• Electronic security equipment (cameras,
  alarmsetc.)
• Office of the Federal Detention Trustee
• Information Technology Division
• Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP)
• Office of Security Technology
• U.S. Marshals Service (USMS)
• Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)
  /Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
• Civil Rights Division
• State and Local Governments
• Private service providers

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Inmate Management Needs and Solutions Replacing
Paper

• Databasing and Data Security
• Booking/Fingerprinting Information
• Inmate Disciplinary Write-Ups
• Medical Records HIPAA
• Property Sheets/Photos
• Visitation Records
• Gang Activity
• Inmate Counts
• Bed Location

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Prison Management Needs and Solutions New
Possibilities

• Enforcing Physical Security
• Voice over WLAN
• Limited radio channel capacity
• Voice-over-IP phones
• Inmate Identification
• Bar Codes
• Handheld Computers and laptops
• Guard and Inmate Tracking
• RFIDs
• Access Point
• Real Time

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Examples
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AVIAN- Advanced Vehicle Interrogation and
Notification System

• 1999
• detects the presence of persons hidden in
  vehicles
• seismic sensors detect shock waves generated by
  the beating heart

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Alanco/TSI PRISM Example Real Time Tracking

• RFID tags for constant monitoring needs
• Officer Duress
• Inmate Out of Place
• Investigation
• Inmate Separation

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TSI PRISM GUI
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RFID tag unit for inmates
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RFID tag unit for officers and employees
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Officer presses duress button or alarm is
activated upon impact
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Playback Option for Investigations
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Office of the Federal Detention Trustee IT

• 2006
• Products
• DSNetwork
• improves interaction between government agencies
  and service providers and reduce lengthy and
  cumbersome workloads
• eDesignate
• streamlines and automates the sentence-to-designat
  ion process