Securus Technologies is a leading civil and criminal justice solutions provider to the law enforcement and correctional agencies. The privately held company has its headquarters in Dallas, Texas with four regional offices in Dallas and one in Atlanta, Georgia. The company has been providing services to over 3,450 correctional agencies serving more than 1.2 million inmates in 45 states in addition to the District of Columbia, Canada, and Mexico. Securus Services Since their inception in 1986, Securus Technologies has grown into the country’s leading provider of high-tech software solutions, parole tracking, and detainee communication services. Their highly qualified teams of experts provide various public safety services such as biometric
Computerized communication within law enforcement has and will continue to improve law enforcement as the technology is implemented and utilized within these agencies. The utilization of such devices as mobile data terminals (MDT’s) has given the average patrol officer access to enormous amounts of information. Even in 1979, Computer and technology were said to “have the potential to aid in criminal justice activities through the rapid communication of accurate and complete information, and perhaps a more rational approach to decision-making” (Colton, 1979. P.19). Now in 2014, the computers and
Our facility offers one-on-one counseling. This counseling will take place between a prisoner and a criminal social service counselor in a guarded room. The counselor will be able to have multiple sessions with prisoners to find the root of their problem and hopefully be able to work on ways to resolve some of their underline issues. They will be able to
In 2001, Emerging issues on privatized prisons found many striking statistics concerning the privatization of prisons. It is estimated that worldwide there were 184 privately operated correctional facilities. Within the United States, a total of 158 private correctional facilities are operating. A substantial portion of the worlds privately owned correctional facilities are in
1. Information regarding the Department of Corrections’ investigation of complaints related to several correctional officers will spread throughout the institution along certain channels (Stojkovic, Kalinich, Klofas, 2008). Starting with the prison warden this information will need to be efficient and accurate as it travels throughout the organization. Being that the prison warden will be the first to be informed of this information, the chain of command would be downward communication. This type of communication allows a clear passageway for the information to be sent to subordinates and provides for an effective management of the tone and delegation of the message (Stojkovic et al., 2008). The channels that are chosen in regards to the
Electronic monitoring is a device that allows Justice Officers and officials to ensure an offender is at a certain location when 65 required to be there. The use of the monitoring device is becoming more popular as a way to control and supervise offenders within the community to ensure citizens are safe. In the mid-1960 a Harvard Psychologist Robert Schwitzgebel developed the first electronic monitoring device. The device was intended to provide an inexpensive alternative for offenders than incarceration or within the justice process. Even though the device was patented in 1969 it didn’t start coming into effect until the 1980’s. It’s used by courts to track the location of offenders that are under surveillance or restricted to certain areas.
Specializing in lucrative correctional enterprises with affiliated divisions such as IC Solutions since 1975, the Keefe Group,
The number of electronics now available to make criminal justice jobs more effective is rapidly growing. Of course, criminals also utilize these technologies, so professionals in the industry have to remain one step ahead in technology to combat illicit usage. Database and information exchange, detection and positioning systems, are the three main parts of the technology involved with the new organization. There are many precedents set to help make these types of informed decisions. For example, twenty years ago it took a lot more manpower to map out crime patterns than it takes for a computer program to do it today.
There are over 180,000 felons loose in the United States that police cannot track (Time Maz) due to outdated software, a patchwork of isolated papers and digital files. Retrieving data has been a time consuming task for police departments across the country. Scott Crouch, Flo Mayra and Matt Polega, all 23 year old Harvard graduates, built a cloud based records management and analytics system to help change this process. Thanks to the Mark43 system, what would take Police Officers hours to enter arrest and incident reports, now takes only 30 minutes. A college professor of the three co-founders sent them on a class project in Springfield (is this Illinois? Where?) to observe how the police department used this
These giant telecoms negotiate with the prisons to pay them a share of the profits in the form of commissions which quickly boot
This is exciting news and a real opportunity for the IT team to help design an information system to support the SCR training group. The new system will be called TIMS, which stands for Training Information Management System.
Other security elements are in reference to data recovery, database administration, handling a breach in security and administrative security policies such as access procedure, employee transfer and excessive user access. As I assume the role of the chief security officer, database designer, database administrator, and chief applications designer this project is very important to the armed services and the Virgin Islands National Guard as we strive to provide global security.
In this current generation, technology is steadily becoming a major asset to our future in a wide range of areas, and has been embedded in our lives currently to the point of being close to a necessity. In Criminal Justice, the use of technology has proven to be of tremendous help in many areas of the field. The incorporation of the computer systems in criminal justice tremendously has improved the general communication between agencies as the new methods of transferring information among departments. In addition, it has become much more resourceful and efficient in that it is much simpler to acquire the data at a more rapid rate, hence, speeding up the time it takes to prevent or solve crimes. The intent of this paper is to deliver an
The Automated Regional Information Exchange system (ARIES) is a software application owned by Contra Costa County, and used by County and other law enforcement agencies to manage arrest and parolee data collected from law enforcement agencies. ARIES manages arrest and parole data provided by local law enforcement agencies that is stored on a County server. The purpose of this purchase is to renew critical infrastructure, enhance system security and expand capacity for growing demand. ARIES is used by more than 8,000 users from over 93 different agencies.
Technology has become the bedrock for different parts of the correction system. The main force of expenditures and study in the corrections field is for the use of monitoring offenders. Different technologies that allow for better control pf the offenders can save lives and help prevent new crimes from emerging. The point of these technologies is to reduce the chance of recidivism by deterring criminals from behaviors that they may commit if otherwise left to their own devices. “The role of staff in the correctional institutional environment will never be obsolete but the use of technology can enhance and enable staff to perform their jobs more efficiently and in a safer and more secure way.” (Mannix 2) There is also an increase use of
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