| For the price of an entertainment system, a Sub Station or "Holding Jail" can install a complete Multimedia Education and Monitoring System. Overview
The Multimedia Telesys, Inc. (MTI), low cost education and monitoring system for a detention facility creates an environment that results in a reduction of the number of attempted suicides and overall aggressive sessions the detainee will experience. It is believed by many that if entertainment and educational audio/video material can be made available to the in-transit detainee, fewer periods of melancholy and states of depression will occur.
Sub-jail and holding locations currently provide limited audio/video education and entertainment to temporary in-custody residents. Most of these facilities are small (10 to 30 cells) and are constructed for secure single occupancy, temporary for in-transit housing. Accordingly, the initial period of incarceration can be both frightening and boring to the detainee. MTI's Education and Monitoring System provides a vehicle to deliver high quality audio and video to a secured terminal located in the cell hallway areas of the holding and detention cell areas. The officer in charge can select the audio/video program to be played from TV cable, VHS tapes or DVDs. Special tapes can be made or purchased by the detention management department in multiple languages to cover detention related topics such as hygiene, civil rights or introduction to incarceration. Monitoring "add on"
The Multimedia Telesys, Inc. Education and Monitoring System is a perfect platform to provide covert auditing of the behavior of the detainees. The closed nature of the cell areas and small aisle size restricts the implementation of a secured camera monitoring system. Detention officers have not been able to use standard cameras screwed into the wall in low ceiling areas without protective bulky camera housings. These camera installations are easily destroyed by prisoners in aggressive encounters. By integrating a small camera into the protective housing of the entertainment system, monitoring of two cells at time can be accomplished.
The camera monitoring system includes a multi camera sequencing system that provides the full screen picture of two cells at a time rotated through the inventory of ten to thirty cells. This means that in 5 seconds 10 two-cell combinations can be viewed in a 50 second cycle and 30 two-cell combinations will take two and a half minutes. For quicker cycles a four view (quad) format will reduce the scan to twelve seconds and thirty six seconds respectively. Recorders can be added to the system to provide a 24-hour covert documentary of the detainee's activities.
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