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D.C. jail to fingerprint visitors, check for warrants

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

D.C. jail to fingerprint visitors, check for warrants Washington Examiner By: Freeman Klopott 01/17/11 All visitors to the District's jail soon will have their fingerprints scanned and checked against law enforcement databases for outstanding warrants. The D.C. Department of Corrections is already using the "live scan" fingerprint technology on inmates when they enter and leave the jail, corrections officials said. The digital technology allows the department to take an image of an inmate's fingerprint and check it against D.C. police databases to confirm the inmate's identity. Starting in March, the fingerprint-scanning technology will be put to use for all visitors, DOC spokeswoman Sylvia Lane said. "Through a $134,000 grant from the [federal] Office of Justice Grants, we will be [using] the technology in our visitors control area to assist [D...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 19, 2011 (boomark / email).