FRESNO, Calif., Aug. 7, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Continental Prison Systems, Inc. (Pink Sheets:CPSZ), dba EZ Card and Kiosk, recently installed a number of kiosks and trained the entire staff at the Pima County Jail and Mission Street Work Release Center in Tucson, Arizona, in conjunction with Plano, Texas-based Value Added Communication, Inc. (VACI), a premier provider of telecommunications services for the detention and correctional markets.
Pima County Jail has 2355 beds and the facility releases over 140 inmates per day. CPSI installed four kiosks at the main jail facility's booking area, holding area and lobby. A kiosk was also installed at the Mission Street Work Release Center for work release payments by accepting employer's checks, money orders, credit/debit cards and cash. In the near future, the EZ Release Card program will be implemented, which issues a PIN-based debit card to released inmates, allowing the Pima County Jail to eliminate the issuance of paper checks.
Under this strategic alliance, Value Added Communication has provided all of Lattice Telecom services throughout the facility.
According to Kirkton Shoop, Vice-President Business Development for CPSI, "This will be the first of many correctional facilities around the country that EZ Card and Kiosk and Value Added Communication will join forces on. We are proud to be associated with VACI, a real leader in the phone system service business for the correctional industry, and feel we compliment our services to the benefit of the correctional facilities we serve."
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About Continental Prison Systems Inc.
Continental Prison Systems Inc. (CPSI), dba EZ Card and Kiosk, is the first kiosk, internet payment and release debit card provider to successfully introduce a full-suite solution for the "Cashless Jail." The company offers innovative solutions to city and county jails designed to streamline and reduce many of the operational and personnel costs required to properly manage a major segment of detention facilities. When offering its proprietary software, teamed with customized kiosk hardware and remote secure website technology, EZ Card & Kiosk creates a system for jails for the booking process of collecting and depositing cash holdings of a new inmate; bail by kiosk or remote website; money load by an inmate's family and friends to make deposits into their trust account by kiosk or remote website; and issuing the inmate's money at the time of their release via the EZ Release Card, a PIN-based debit card. The kiosk is similar in appearance to a "Stand-Alone" ATM with user friendly interfaces. Our goal is to help convert the jail into a "cashless" environment through the use of kiosks for in-coming cash and the issuance of a debit card to an inmate at the time of his/her release. In doing so, the facility is relieved from repeatedly handling cash, further reducing personnel time, errors and fraud.
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