Global Tel*Link Details to Pai Managed Access System Use, Challenges in Prisons
Global Tel*Link gave the FCC an overview of its "managed access systems" (MAS) in correctional facilities. GTL shared details about "ongoing challenges the industry faces with this type of deployment," said a company filing posted Thursday in docket 12-375 on…
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a meeting with Chairman Ajit Pai and an aide. "GTL also shared some of the solutions it is using in place of MAS such as TSA-style security, vision screening technologies, and other investigative tools that provide correctional facilities more comprehensive security and law enforcement intelligence for managing their facilities." Representatives discussed the "deployment and use of tablets in correctional facilities, and how such deployment can reduce the use of contraband cell phones in correctional facilities," the filing said. "Its tablets use a private managed network, which ensures correctional facility security protocols are followed, such as the ability to monitor communications and control inmate access to information." The tablets let inmates use a "variety of content useful to the inmate while incarcerated and after release," said the firm.