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Highlights from TDCJ chief's testimony at House Corrections

The House Corrections Committee began its hearing this morning with testimony from Brad Livingston, E.D. of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Here are a few highlights:The largest recent contract approved at the board level is telephone contract, said Livingston. Roughly 120,000 offenders will have access to around 4,000 phones which will use biometric identifiers and personal identification numbers to restrict inmates to making approved calls. It will take 7.5 months to install the phones. The rates are "quite low compared to what you'd see in county jails."Two employees from the phone contractors explained there will be registration process to screen who inmates can call and a voice identification system will ensure the prisoner whose ID number is used is really the one speaking on the phone...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on August 21, 2008 (boomark / email).