Corrections Products News & Articles

• How to buy body scanners (eBook)

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  Download this Police1 body scanners buying guide to learn key steps for product selection, purchasing and implementation

• (Webinar) Using AI to gather intelligence from inmate calls for solving crimes—and saving lives

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  Learn how artificial intelligence is used to mitigate agency liability, enhance officer and correctional staff safety, and prevent suicides

• On-Demand Webinar: Managing probation and parole, engaging with vulnerable citizens via smartphone check-ins from Acivilate

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  Learn how an app can make oversight from a distance during the COVID-19 pandemic easier

• Webinar: The value of electronic offender monitoring in the digital world

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  Learn more about the value of having a remote, electronic offender monitoring and tracking program for your agency

• 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

• Electronic monitoring for pretrial offenders: Download the free white paper

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  Learn how to reduce recidivism and jail expenditures despite limited funds and personnel

• How CMPD uses electronic monitoring to reduce recidivism and solve crimes

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  The Charlotte-Mecklenburg PD tracks pretrial offenders with the Omnilink EM solution to deter repeat offenses and solve crimes faster

• Correctional agencies’ response to drone intrusions

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  Drones have quickly become an effective tool for criminal activity

• Transporter lift create safer way to transport high-risk inmates

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  The Mac's Prisoner Transport Lift allows officers to lift high risk offenders strapped into a restraint chair into the vehicle

• Enhance your multi-agency training with Pat-Down Props

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  There are non-functioning replicas of crack pipes, needles, brass knuckles and even handguns

• 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

• Peerless Handcuff Company introduces Superlite Chain Link Handcuff

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  Peerless Handcuff Company handcuffs are half the weight of a standard chain link handcuff

• High-performance police gloves are slash and needle-resistant

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  Twelve models of the glove are available — all of which are available with EN 388:2003 Puncture/Needle Resistance Level 4

• Handheld X-ray screening system safe for everyday LEO use

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  The Backscatter Z is about 9 pounds and requires little training to use

• Colo. sheriff's office uses iris scanner to ID suspects

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  Office has been using the technology since 2007 to book inmates and ensure they've caught the correct person

• Law enforcement pursues video visits for inmates in Ill.

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  Authorities say the arrangement would save staff time as inmates would not have to be taken to visitation areas

• London to test electronic monitors to force offenders to stop drinking

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  Trial program would use electronic bracelets to detect alcohol

• Better prepare for any attack with Shocknife

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  Training knife induces the stress necessary to give realistic edged weapon training

• Gotcha handcuffs: Pick-proof and light weight

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  Founder: "In seven years we've had people try and no one can get out of our cuffs"

• Delivering prisoner compliance with the Stun-Cuff

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  Data tracking system now offered with less lethal device

• Iris scans may prevent mistaken release of suspects

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  Scanners might prevent inmate escapes at jails around the country

• Honolulu police posting DUI mug shots on the Web

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  By Mark Niesse Associated PressHONOLULU — Mug shots of drunken driving suspects are landing on the Honolulu Police Department's Web site, creating a virtual wall of shame long before suspects get t...

• Mock prison riot a showcase for new technologies

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  Using night-vision goggles, the Correctional Emergency Response Team officers search the facility’s pitch-dark basement slowly, carefully, methodically. An inmate has ducked away from the rest of h...

• Fla. inmate questioned in rape-murder of officer

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  By Walter Pacheco The Orlando SentinelDAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — An inmate, with a criminal history of rape and kidnapping charges, is under confinement this morning after being accused of raping and mu...

• No life sentence for felon who attacked cop

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  The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA — A felon who allegedly put a gun to a police officer's head and narrowly missed killing him has been spared a possible life sentence because of missing court reco...

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