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Prison board hears jail phone-monitoring volume; members discuss part-time hire and live-scan rollout
Summary
Board heard that jail intelligence staff monitored a very large volume of phone calls in 2024 (about 241,000) and discussed hiring a part-time employee to assist with phone and video monitoring; staff also reported a pending live-scan computer delivery and staff training.
At the Jan. 22 meeting the Lawrence County Prison Board discussed the volume of jail telephone monitoring and the status of a planned live-scan fingerprinting system.
The district attorney and jail staff reported that jail phone systems produced roughly 241,000 calls in 2024, about 20,000 a month, creating a large monitoring workload for one intelligence officer. The district attorney…
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