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| BI Incorporated Releases BI Cellular System Allows for Wireless 'House Arrest |
| By Press Release |
| Published: 05/09/2003 |
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Boulder, CO, February 10, 2003 - BI Incorporated unveiled an important new electronic monitoring option today, which will allow judges and community corrections officers to sentence offenders to home detention when no telephone service is available. BI Cellular is a wireless home detention system that combines with BI's premiere home detention equipment to produce this offender monitoring tool. BI Incorporated, the nation's leader in offender monitoring tools and prisoner re-entry services, announced the introduction of BI Cellular at a time when more and more American households are without traditional home telephone service. In fact, the Federal Communications Commission estimates one of every 20 homes is without telephone service -- this ratio jumps to one in five homes when the household head is unemployed or the family has an income level below the poverty line. 'This is an important breakthrough for our development team as well as for our customers, including judges and correctional agencies that rely on home detention as a cost-effective alternative to incarceration,' said Bruce Thacher, BI's Chief Operating Officer. 'BI Cellular eliminates the excuses judges hear often -- that offenders have no phone service -- to provide an advanced solution for a growing number of individuals supervised through community corrections programs.' BI Cellular is linked to BI HomeGuard 200, the company's most sophisticated electronic home detention system. This system verifies an offender complies with a court-ordered schedule to be home at certain times, using an ankle transmitter worn by the offender, a monitoring device installed in the home, and a host computer located in BI's national monitoring center. BI Cellular provides a wireless telephone connection from the monitoring device to BI's national monitoring center. BI Cellular has gone through extensive field testing for most of the last year, and the system passed in all locations with exceptional results. The system is also appropriate for offenders who live in motels or hotels, avoiding the complications of a link from the home detention system through a switchboard, and in residences where there are multiple offenders but only one phone line. Extensive security precautions have been built into BI Cellular, including a 12-hour backup battery power source, motion sensors that ensure the device remains in one place, and sensors that ensure the BI HomeGuard 200 and BI Cellular connection is maintained continuously. About BI Incorporated Established in 1978, BI Incorporated works with approximately 2,700 governmental agencies nationwide to provide offender monitoring technology, supervision services from a national monitoring center, community-based treatment services, and re-entry programs to more than 100,000 adult and juvenile offenders released on parole, probation or pre-trial release. BI technology includes sophisticated electronic monitoring, voice verification and remote alcohol-testing devices. BI's community-based treatment services, offered through 95 local community corrections service centers, include enrollment services, face-to-face supervision, rehabilitation and treatment, drug and alcohol testing, court-ordered fine and fee collections, and electronic monitoring. (www.bi.com) |
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