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| New Fingerprint System Reduces Escapes |
| By The Wichita Eagle |
| Published: 11/21/2005 |
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The goal of Kansas Sedgwick County Sheriff Gary Steed is to reduce inmate escapes and a computerized fingerprint identification system began being used last week at the Sedgwick County Jail. An inmate escaped the jail on Oct. 3 by impersonating an inmate scheduled for release, becoming the 10th inmate to escape since 2001. He was recaptured a few days later. "I'm actually pretty proud of our record," Steed said, noting that the jail had processed more than 150,000 inmates over the same time period those 10 had escaped. But that's still too many escapees, he said, which is why the new system is being added to existing procedures. "We want to cut that error rate down," Steed said. "Any time we're dealing with people, we have human errors." The computer scans two fingerprints of inmates that are being booked and stores them in a database. When it is time for inmates to be released, their fingerprints are scanned again and compared to the prints on file. Officials announced the new identification system last week. |
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