Justice Services - Electronic Monitoring

	Benefiting from Partnering and Continuity Justice Services, Inc. has partnered with BI Incorporated who pioneered electronic monitoring and provides the criminal justice field with the most comprehensive tools to supervise and treat offenders living in our communities. Increased demand for the management of clients diverted or transitioning from jail or prison has resulted in more specialized programs and caseloads. At BI, electronic monitoring (EM) means much more than simple radio frequency curfew monitoring. These programs help reduce recidivism and improve public safety. Electronic Monitoring (EM) technology has created new alternatives for the criminal justice field. Between the extremes of incarceration and total freedom, one of the most effective supervision tools is electronic monitoring. EM can be an effective alternative sanction and supervision tool while offering substantial cost savings over more traditional sanctions. Today, advanced technology bridges the supervision gap between unrestricted freedom and expensive incarceration for an offender. Sentencing of offenders or pre-trial defendants to home arrest, allows them to leave only for pre-approved activities during specific hours of the day, all verified by an electronic monitoring system. Offenders on EM can remain employed, support their families and pay taxes. It reduces the family reliance on public assistance, keeps prison and jail beds for more violent offenders, improves assurance of appearance at trial, allows parents to more closely monitor juvenile activity, and helps keep offenders off the streets at night. Electronic Monitoring: Restricts Undesirable Behavior Supports Treatment Programs Increases Public Safety Reduces the Cost of Supervision Justice Services and its partner, BI, offer a continuum of reliable compliance technologies to meet the monitoring needs of agencies and Courts. Electronic monitoring products and services provide an effective complement to various types of community corrections programs including alternative sanction programs, treatment programs, intensive supervision programs, jail overcrowding programs, work release programs, day reporting programs, pre-trial release programs and others. Used within the confines of solid correctional policy and practice, EM can restrict undesirable behavior, punish, support treatment efforts, reduce public risk and be an extremely cost-effective alternative to more traditional sanctions. BI Incorporated provides the monitoring for Justice Services. BI utilizes a quadruple-server system which includes two production database servers capable of handling all of BI’s data, and two backup services, all located in Boulder, Colorado. Additional system redundancy components exist at the Anderson, Indiana Monitoring Center. Boulder and Anderson are linked through three bi-directional T1 Wide Area Network connections. Importantly, all four servers are replicated in real-time. If the production server goes down entirely, the system switches to the second server while the first server receives immediate attention. This process is repeated if, in the unlikely event, the second server goes down as well. Within each server is another important safety measure. Each server has a RAID 1/0 subsystem, which provides reliability and fault tolerance. In RAID 1/0 data is triped acro ____ set of drives. That set of drives is mirrored, which results in two identical sets of striped ____. If one disk fails, the other disks continue to function while the disk that failed is repaired or replaced. This level of detailed, data protection is unparalleled in the industry.