Project to Watch: Lake County Courthouse Celebrates Topping Out
The Lake County Courthouse held a topping out ceremony on April 11 to mark the placement of the final beam atop its new eight-story tower.
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Design Roundtable: The Future of Correctional Design
The corrections industry currently faces a paradigm shift that will have a major effect on correctional design
Read moreNational Survey Reveals Correctional Technology Priorities
DALLAS — Dallas-headquartered Securus Technologies — a leading provider of civil and criminal justice technology solutions for public safety, investigation, corrections and monitoring — last week announced the results of a national survey conducted at the company’s state-of-the-art, $1.5 million Technology Center.
Read moreTexas Lawmakers Support More In-Person Inmate Visitation
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas state lawmakers in both the House and Senate voted on Monday in support of House Bill 549, requiring that county jails provide inmates with greater access to in-person visitation. The bill, brought by Rep.
Report Finds Prison Video Visitation Policies Can Benefit Children
The jail in Washington, D.C., recently began to allow family members to visit inmates by video conference. The problem is, in-person meetings are no longer permitted. The only way families can see each other now is by sitting in front of a computer screen several blocks apart.
Read moreCTA Summit Allows for Technological Dialogue
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — The Corrections Technology Association (CTA) held its 13th annual summit with sessions titled “Innovative Cross-Jurisdictional Data Sharing,” “Implementation Initiatives/Lessons Learned,” and “Solving Correctional Problems with Innovative Technologies.”
Workshops with practitioners and providers demonstrated technologies such as automated inmate entitlements tracking and video visitation.
Read moreSupporting Reentry through Video Visitation
A recent report by the Pew Research Center found that recidivism rates have remained largely stable, based on a comparison of inmates released from prison in 1999 and 2004. This is a discouraging statistic, given that reducing recidivism is integral to corrections’ core mission to protect the public.
Video Visitation: Evolving Revenue Streams
As correctional facilities continue to deal with locked-down budgets, converting conventional, face-to-face visitation to remote, video visitation has emerged as a way to reduce operational costs.
Conventional vs. Remote Visitation: Hybrid Model Delivers Tailored Solution
Although video visitation has become commonplace in correctional facilities during the last decade, administrators and agencies are beginning to understand that the application of evolving technology is no longer an all-or-nothing choice between conventional face-to-face and remote video visitation models.
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