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Increasing Number of Jails, Prisons Using Full-body Digital Scanners
Loaded on June 3, 2016
by Matthew Clarke
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2016, page 42
Filed under:
Mechanical Searches/Scanners,
Visitor Searches,
Cost of Prison Systems,
Visiting.
Location:
United States of America.
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 ...
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