Self-Service Commissary Purchases

As inmate populations in the US continue to grow, and operational budgets continue to shrink, corrections facilities are faced with serious budget cuts and overworked employees. With these added pressures, many corrections officials are seeking to streamline simple, yet labor intensive tasks - including providing commissary services to inmates. This has led many officials to ask, "Is there a way to reduce the time my employees are spending on processing commissary purchases?"

Corrections officials can find the efficiency they are seeking with Source Technologies' self-service commissary purchases solution. Comprised of the concourse 3-Series head unit and the concourse Software Platform, this solution offers corrections officials the power and flexibility they need to automate the purchase of commissary products, as well as a number of different functions.

The heart of the solution is the concourse 3-Series head unit, which is specially engineered to withstand the harshest conditions. With a large 12" touch screen, biometric fingerprint ID scanner and high-speed thermal receipt, deployers have configuration flexibility to best suit their requirements.

Designed for use with Swanson Services Corporation's Cobra Banker, the self-service commissary purchases solution lets correction officials cost-effectively deploy a commissary purchase application that meets the unique needs of their environment.

Source Technologies' commissary purchases solution provides many benefits for both the inmates and prison officials:

• Frees employees to focus on other important responsibilities
• Reduces paperwork - all purchases can be processed and stored electronically
• Supports additional applications such as job information, policies and regulations and the ability to handle inmate complaints
• Provides immediate gratification for inmates - purchases are processed and accounts are updated in real-time
• Allows inmates to make purchases at any time rather than being required to wait for their scheduled time
• Contains multi-lingual capabilities - inmates can communicate in the language of their choice
• Flexible configurations include wall-mount, desktop, or freestanding positioning

With the continuing challenges of overcrowding and tightening budgets, correction facilities are expending many financial and personnel resources on taking and processing inmates' commissary purchases.

By implementing Source Technologies' self-service commissary purchases solution, correction facilities can save time and money by automating simple tasks and allowing staff to focus on other responsibilities.

Self-Service Commissary Purchases: Highlights

• Provides inmates the ability to make purchases at any time without inundating employees
• Streamlines the commissary purchase process, drastically reducing operational and labor costs
• Powerful and flexible - can support a number of other important applications