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Cost Justification for RTLS in Corrections: A Finance-Ready Guide for Facility Leaders
Real-time location system (RTLS) technology has long been a serious operational consideration for jails and prisons across the country. Although the safety benefits are clear, corrections administrators, security directors, and procurement teams still need a practical cost justification framework for RTLS in corrections, from quantifying the ROI to structuring a pilot that produces credible results.…
Read MoreHow RTLS Improves Incident Response Time in Correctional Facilities
Every second counts when something goes wrong inside a correctional facility. A staff member presses their panic button. An incarcerated person collapses in a housing unit. A contraband search turns into a lockdown. In each of these moments, how fast your team can detect, locate, dispatch, and resolve the incident is the difference between a…
Read MoreAccuracy Requirements for RTLS in Correctional Facilities: A Practical Guide for Procurement and Operations
When correctional administrators begin evaluating real-time location systems, “accuracy” is almost always the first specification they ask about and the most misunderstood. Vendors quote numbers. RFPs demand measurements and percentages. But without a clear framework for what accuracy means in a jail or prison environment, those numbers are nearly impossible to evaluate, compare, or hold…
Read MoreRTLS for Secure Environments: A Buyer’s Guide for High-Security Facilities
Real-time location systems are commonplace in retail warehouses, hospital supply rooms, and manufacturing plants. But those environments share very little with a maximum-security prison, a forensic psychiatric hospital, or a correctional healthcare unit. When procurement teams at high-security facilities begin evaluating RTLS, they quickly discover that most vendor guides, comparison articles, and industry overviews were…
Read MoreNew Approaches in Supporting Burnt-Out Corrections Staff
Dean and Nick discuss the power of technology and transparency to support staff, promote retention, and lead to culture shifts within facilities and the corrections industry as a whole. Provide information about the benefits of life safety equipment and monitoring technology in protecting staff, encouraging good behavior, and shortening intervention times when incidents
Read MoreChange Management in the Workplace: a Spectrum of Challenges
By Nick Liantzakis Anyone who has any experience in the workforce—from entry-level to executive roles—knows there are multiple types of change in the workplace, and each poses its own set of challenges. There are internal changes, like restructuring, new divisions popping up, hiring, process changes, focus shifts in the organization, or change at the very…
Read MoreUnderstand Your Leadership Style, Understand Yourself
Getting to the root of who you are as a leader, and why, can be transformative. Learn how. By Nick Liantzakis No matter where you are in your career, I’d bet you can think of a manager (or two) who just didn’t “get” it. Wasn’t plugged into frontline employee needs, didn’t enact meaningful changes, maybe…
Read MoreNew Outcomes Need New Pathways: Collaboration and Buy-In, Are Key
By Nick Liantzakis As a leader, you know the difficulty of implementing a major project or organizational change. Staff feel left out, rumors of a project’s intent fly, timelines drag on with little progress. From what I’ve seen in the field of corrections (but would argue is applicable to any field), when implementing a new…
Read MoreReigniting the Conversation: The Evolution of Custody Series Returns
Now, as we reignite this series, we reaffirm our commitment to exploring the critical voices and ideas shaping the future of custody.
Read MoreIntroducing Actall’s Security Escort Support Service
By Josh Zimmerman 30 months ago, Bosch Security announced the End of Life (‘EOL’) of the Security Escort product line. Since that time, Actall has been working with Bosch and their end users across the globe to offer a pathway forward that doesn’t just involve ripping the old technology out and installing ATLAS. We believe…
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