By Marcus Smith, Contributing Editor, RFIDOperations

(This article originally ran in 2005 issue of RFIDOperations)

CHILLICOTHE, Ohio—At the minimum security Ross Correctional Facility in Chillicothe, Ohio, prisoners are fitted with active UHF wristbands so they can not only tell guards where they are at any given moment, but where they have been.

TSI PRISM division of Alanco Technologies Inc., is in the middle of a $415,000 pilot project for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation & Corrections at Ross, with the potential of introducing the tracking system at 33 ODRC facilities housing 44,000 prisoners, says Greg Oester, president of the division.