Assessing the security vulnerabilities of correctional facilities

Debra D. Spencer; G. Steve Morrison

doi:10.1117/12.334984

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28 December 1998 Assessing the security vulnerabilities of correctional facilities

Debra D. Spencer, G. Steve Morrison

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Proceedings Volume 3575, Enforcement and Security Technologies; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.334984
Event: Enabling Technologies for Law Enforcement and Security, 1998, Boston, MA, United States

Abstract

The National Institute of Justice has tasked their satellite facility at Sandia National Laboratories and their Southeast Regional Technology Center in Charleston, South Carolina to devise new procedures and tools for helping correctional facilities to assess their security vulnerabilities. Thus, a team is visiting selected correctional facilities and performing vulnerability assessments. A vulnerability assessment helps identify the easiest paths for inmate escape, for introduction of contraband such as drugs or weapons, for unexpected intrusion from outside of the facility, and for the perpetration of violent acts on other inmates and correctional employees. In addition, the vulnerability assessment helps to quantify the security risks for the facility. From these assessments will come better procedures for performing vulnerability assessments in general at other correctional facilities, as well as the development of tools to assist with the performance of such vulnerability assessments.

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Debra D. Spencer and G. Steve Morrison "Assessing the security vulnerabilities of correctional facilities", Proc. SPIE 3575, Enforcement and Security Technologies, (28 December 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.334984

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