A prison and a jail has many visitors coming in and out of it gates, from loved ones to friends wanting to see the well-being of the inmate. Before any visitors can view the inmate they must go through a series of searches to ensure contraband doesn’t enter. Many of the prisons don’t allow the general public to enter the building with a cellphone. They ask the public to leave there personal items in their car. Officers make the visitors walk thru a metal visual detector. To see if the individual has any contraband and concealed weapons. If the monitor is set off, the officer will be alerted and the person in question will be pulled aside and then the contraband wand will be used. They will procced then with a pat down by an officer to ensure they don’t have anything before there visit. If the weather is to cold outside the person will be moved to the indoor facility. You will be asked to remove your coat and it will be placed on a conveyer belt to inspect. Once you have pass those series of inspections you can procced to visit. Another form of technology is surveillance cameras to view the visitors and inmates during there entire visit. They monitor at all times for the safety of the visitor if an incident was to occur during there visit. …show more content…
The technology that is available for all prisons for the prison guard does not affect his ability to prevent smuggling in contraband but allow the officers to have little to no contraband in prison