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Telecom Engineering Consultants, Inc. (TEC) Completes Installation of Inmate Video Visitation System in Cumberland County, North Carolina
TEC completes installation of the Inmate Video Visitation System at the State-of-the-Art Detention Center providing a critical component to the County’s requirements for a safe, cost efficient facility.
Miami, FL, August 26, 2002 – Telecom Engineering Consultants, Inc. (TEC) announced the completion of the Inmate Video Visitation System for the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office, in Fayetteville, North Carolina. The Cumberland County Detention Center is a 568-bed direct supervision detention center, designed to be a safe, secure, and efficient project, providing a positive image to the community while enhancing Fayetteville’s downtown improvement efforts. The video visitation system supplied by TEC is an integral part of the state-of-the-art facility designed to reduce costs and risks by centralizing and automating the inmate visitation process. The visitation system features forty-five (45) visitor stations near the main lobby of the facility and forty-five (45) inmate visitation stations located throughout the facility. Video visitation eliminates movement of either visitors or inmates, greatly reducing the associated costs and risks while allowing extended visitation hours.
Major Dan Ford, Chief Jailer, commented, “The video visitation system is a critical technological innovation employed at our new facility focused on saving the County money while reducing the risks associated with the movement of inmates and visitors within our detention center. The system provided by TEC incorporates all the features and functions required by the Sheriff’s office for quality, performance and aesthetics. The new detention facility is designed for the future, incorporating new technology like video visitation and providing for expansion to further reduce costs. Video arraignment is our next technological investment and will significantly reduce the number of inmates that need to be transported to court, providing all the inherent cost savings and risk reductions.”
County Project Engineer Tom Cooney added, “To promote staff efficiency and safety, the facility is built and organized to minimize inmate movement. Services such as food, laundry, medical, counseling, and educational programs are brought to the inmates in their housing units. The video visitation system provided by TEC significantly reduces the movement of both visitors and inmates, eliminating associated cost. At the same time, a great deal of attention was paid to providing a high quality video communication system for visitation and to providing visitors with a comfortable visitation environment in an effort to provide the best possible visitation experience, including extended visitation hours.”
The video visitation system installed by TEC is built around video communications technology from VUGate Corporation, a leading supplier of systems and solutions for the Judicial and Corrections market. TEC is VUGate’s largest Systems Integrator for Video Visitation systems, which feature the use of campus-based video communications coupled with VUGate’s MINXMate Automated Visitation Management software. The system improves the efficiency of the visitation process, virtually eliminates contraband infiltration, and reduces the risks associated with confrontation or escape. The system can be easily expanded to support links to any industry standard videoconferencing systems, including H.320, H.323 and/or H.324 video protocols, which can be used for additional applications such as Telemedicine, Distance Learning and Video Arraignment.
Pat Sellati, Vice President for Telecom Engineering Consultants stated, “The demands of a video visitation system are effectively accommodated by this system. The system is flexible and extensible, providing the building blocks to support the County’s future expansion requirements with relative ease. VUGate’s Video SuperHub was originally designed to meet the stringent needs of the Department of Defense and the National Security Agency, both of which currently use the VUGate system extensively. This translates into reliable, high-quality, scalable systems that fit perfectly into the high-traffic volume visitation environment found in correctional facilities.”
VUGate specializes in the development and integration of data, voice and video communication solutions, as well as highly sophisticated security applications. For more information on the VUGate and their products and services available through Telecom Engineering Consultants, call 1-800-447-3213.
Telecom Engineering Consultants, Inc. provides turnkey solutions involving the integration of video, data, voice and security technologies. With Headquarters at 9400 NW 25th Street, Miami, Florida 33172, Telecom markets its products and services throughout the US. For more information on the video, data, voice and security solutions available from Telecom, call (800) 447-3213 or visit our web site at www.tec-inc.com.
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