Corrections Body Scanners News & Articles

• New body scanner keeping drugs, contraband out of Maine jail

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  Before the body scanner, staff was required to pat down new inmates with their hands

• How to build a layered contraband detection strategy and why it matters (eBook)

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  Multiple screening steps and checkpoints, combined with varied screening technology, will help thwart smuggling into your facility to keep officers and inmates safer

• Ala. jail body scanner finds triple murder suspect's hidden shank

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  Jimmy Spencer is being held in solitary lockdown following the incident

• Why COs need to pay extra attention to incoming mail

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  Paper soaked in synthetic cannabinoids presents a serious problem when it comes to attempts to smuggle drugs into correctional facilities

• Why a layered screening strategy is critical for stopping contraband

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  To keep drugs, weapons and other disruptive items out of your facility, first identify gaps in your screening process, then adopt a variety of policies and tools to plug the holes

• Spotlight: RCE Consulting, LLC provides 'missing link' for owners and operators of X-ray equipment

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  RCE Consulting, LLC makes sure manufacturers, distributors, installers and owners are aware of and understand regulatory requirements and responsibilities

• Spotlight: How ADANI Systems is committed to delivering quality X-ray security screening solutions

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  Since 1999, ADANI Systems has been known as the pioneer for full body transmission X-ray security scanners

• 3 key strategies for effective visitor screening

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  Consider these tools and techniques to help maintain the constant vigilance necessary to keep contraband drugs, phones and weapons out of your facility

• How one Indiana jail stops contraband at the door

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  Since adding a body scanner to its intake process, the facility has seen a significant drop in drugs found during random shakedowns

• How to prevent drug-smuggling visitors

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  During contact visitation, you are on surveillance detail, so stay alert and never become complacent

• Video review: Inmate punches officer during jail booking

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  From jail booking to prison transport, the chance of an inmate attacking an officer is ever-present

• 5 biggest influences on corrections in the 2010s

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  Read what the C1 team and our readership viewed as having the most significant impact on the profession in the last decade

• How new technology takes the guesswork out of inmate screening

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  New AI features highlight and color-code foreign objects on or in the body to make full-body scanning faster, easier and more accurate

• How one Oregon jail uses X-ray screening to keep out contraband drugs

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  Looking for a better way to catch contraband, this Oregon sheriff led the charge to make X-ray screening a common practice in the state’s county jails

• How to buy body scanners (eBook)

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  Download this Corrections1 body scanners buying guide to learn key steps for product selection, purchasing and implementation

• 6 ways to protect your K-9s on the job

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  From vet visits to ballistic vests and drug detection tools, here’s how to promote the health and safety of your four-legged officers

• W.Va. uses first of opioid settlement to purchase scanners for jails, prisons

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  The purchase is the first to be made using money from a $37 million settlement with McKesson Corp.

• They put what where? 7 contraband stories show why you should screen everything

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  Inmates and their associates will try just about anything when it comes to smuggling drugs and other contraband behind bars

• Pa. prison to get body scanners

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  The system will allow non-contact inspections for inmates

• Overdoses in Calif. prisons up 113% in three years

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  The rise in overdoses comes despite the state pouring millions into technologies designed to block contraband at prison entry points

• Okla. prison system overwhelmed by smuggled cellphones

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  In 2016, correctional officers confiscated a record 9,766 cellphones from inmates

• 3 ways to keep contraband under control with detection technology

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  Apply tools like X-ray scanners and trace detection in a layered approach to prevent illicit items from slipping through the cracks

• Ohio county jail to use X-ray on inmates

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  The Sheriff’s Office has a long-term problem of illegal substances, such as drugs, coming into the jail

• How body scanning technology aids contraband detection

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  Here’s how to maximize detection using technology combined with physical searches

• Contraband detection: Effective strategies to stop the influx (eBook)

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  Download this free eBook to learn more about keeping cellphones and other contraband out of your facility

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