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Technology in Corrections - X-rays & Scanners

  • Body Cavity Screening for Criminal Justice: Market Survey (2014)

    "Body scanners are used to screen for contraband in a variety of places. Airports, schools, government buildings, and corrections facilities are examples of the types of places that have employed body scanners. Different types of body scanners have different capabilities based on the imaging technologies used and the sophistication of the internal system analysis. Metal detection was one of the first technologies developed to identify metallic objects on a person, but contraband can take many other forms, such as powders (e.g., drugs), paper (e.g., money), and even ceramic or plastic weapons. Correctional facilities in particular are faced with various forms...

  • The truth about correctional facility backscatter X-ray body scanners (2015)

    "Many people have a misconception of what some types of body scanners can do"

  • Increasing Number of Jails, Prisons Using Full-body Digital Scanners (2016)

    "In 2012, the Hamilton County Jail in southwest Ohio was the first jail in the state to purchase a SecurPass full-body digital scanner, using a $243,000 federal grant. Thereafter, prisoners at the facility were subjected to scans in addition to strip searches during intake. Jail officials reported the device revealed a small gun, a screwdriver, pocket knives, balloons filled with drugs and numerous other hidden items. But in August 2013 the Ohio Health Department ordered the county to stop using the scanner. Why? A state administrative code prohibits the use of X-ray devices unless prescribed by a physician."

  • Scanner helps stop flow of drugs in Fla. jail (2016)

    "The installation of the scanner in Orange County Jail has cut down on inmates sneaking in drugs"