44,000 prison inmates to be RFID-chipped – LANs – Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com
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One US state reckons it’s cracked how to keep track of all of its 44,000 prison inmates – RFID-chip them.
The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRH) has approved a $415,000 contract to trial the tracking technology with Alanco Technologies.
The pilot project will run at the Ross Correctional Facility in Chillicothe, Ohio. If all goes well, the technology could be rolled out to all of the state’s inmates in 33 separate facilities. Inmates will wear “wristwatch-sized” transmitters that can detect if prisoners have been trying to remove them and send an alert to prison computers.
