Corrections Breathalyzers News & Articles

• Automated probation check-ins, alcohol monitoring arrives in South Texas

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  The AB Kiosk system can coordinate up to 30 alcohol screenings and check-ins per hour

• Hand-held breath analyzer requires tests from offenders wherever they go

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  The new device, called a Smart Mobile, could complement ankle bracelets and give the court system more leeway

• GPS, smartphone software aims to revolutionize probation

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  Corrisoft's 'Alternative to Incarceration via Rehabilitation' program helps extend the structure of prison life to help probationers build a foundation for recovery

• New breathalyzer with fuel-cell precision decreases time, risk

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  PRISM technology allows the officer to change the breathalyzer’s sensor on their own when needed

• DA: Flaw in process allowed Texas man out of jail to drive drunk again

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  Probation officer saw him driving without an ignition interlock device Feb. 21

• Prisoners drunk on hand sanitizer 'cocktail'

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  Three inmates used the germ killer as a brew base, adding sugar-based products like powdered fruit drink to sweeten it

• 12 Utah inmates sick after drinking prison pruno

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  Offenders are hospitalized from a suspected botulism outbreak

• Video: New Year’s riot over breath test at UK prison

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  Inmates burned down parts of a UK minimum-security prison after refusing to be breathalyzed

• DUI case complicated by burp before breath test

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  A judge threw out the results which registered a blood-alcohol level of 0.15 percent

• Escaped Aussie prisoner found drinking beer in pub

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  Kayd Thorp, 24, escaped from police Tuesday afternoon at the Brisbane airport

• Breathalyzer maker's trade secrets hamper DUI prosecution

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  Defendants have the right to examine the evidence against them, including the computer code inside the breath-test machines

• Ohio work program in jeopardy after inmates found drinking

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  A program that allows low-risk inmates to work at the governor's official residence might be cancelled

• 2 jail guards accused of being drunk at bar

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  Chicago Tribune CHICAGO — The Lake County sheriff's department is investigating allegations of drunkenness and arrogant behavior by two corrections officers early Thursday morning at a Round Lake H...