Corrections Biometrics Identification News & Articles

• Digital Edition: How technology improves officer and facility safety

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  Download a free Corrections1 guide on how correctional facilities can harness the evolving power of connected technology

• NM jail to scan irises to verify inmates' identities

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  Chief Greg Rees said the jail will soon start scanning the irises of all inmates as soon as they are booked into jail

• Hidden in prison: Thousands of inmates not in DNA databases

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  A significant number of unsolved mysteries could be cracked with a simple swab in a violent criminal’s cheek, experts say

• How GPS units can enhance offender monitoring

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  While GPS units can help monitor offenders, probation and parole officers must use them in conjunction with other supervision methods

• How biometric technologies will help correctional facilities

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  Biometric technologies have already helped facilities improve offender identification and have the potential to improve efficiency for employee access authentication

• False identity escape leads to Ind. jail acquiring fingerprint scanner

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  The "positive identification device" was implemented after Jessica Stringer, 34, used her cellmate's identity to leave the jail

• Minn. county sheriff now using eye scanners to ID inmates

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  All of the 11,000 or so inmates booked into the jail each year will have their irises photographed, and the images will be stored for future use

• Va. DOC to begin using voice biometrics

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  DOC will use the biometric voice verification technology to identify and monitor the offenders

• Neb. county jail receives new fingerprinting system

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  The new machine will allow inmates to add information themselves and print out an accurate booking card

• Eye scanner for Ohio jail could save $70K a year

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  The PassPoint.net System will minimize the use of urine tests, reduce staff time and could eliminate the need to hire another correctional officer

• How to use speech for your dual-authentication login

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  Two-factor authentication soon required for access to criminal information databases

• Is your smartphone becoming a digital ID?

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  Using smartphones instead of plastic IDs improves security and access control

• Smiths Detection introduces Target-ID to fight contraband

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  Portable device offers a forensic lab in the palm of your hand

• Morpho announces OAAP-approved biometric access readers

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  New biometric access readers now integrate directly into control system

• Biometrics security is not foolproof

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  The Windows registry is a proof of concept that, if computer programmers designed buildings and bridges, one woodpecker could destroy Western civilization

• 3 charged with using prisoner IDs in theft scam

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  Authorities said they appropriated personal information regarding 185 inmates in several states

• Biometric prison management: Technology of the future?

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  By Evan Wagstaff A new biometric system touts iris and fingerprint biometric technology, manages electronic key cabinets, secures airlock portals, catalogues inmate property storage, monitors visit...

• The future of correctional training is going digital

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  COTC breaks new ground in the realm of online training

• The Good and Bad of the Biometric Future

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  There's a market for software that recognizes your face and fingerprints, but also increasing fear that Big Brother will be the one staring hard at your eyes and nose. By Sam Williams, Salon.com Te...