FRESNO, Calif., June 19, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Continental Prison Systems, Inc. (PinkSheets:CPSZ), provider of the EZ-Card and Kiosk technology for cashless solutions, today announced a strategic alliance with FSH Telecom. Based in Chicago, Illinois, FSH Telecom is a premier provider of telecommunications services for the detention and correctional markets.
Under this strategic alliance, FSH Telecom has been awarded a contract for the Pima County Jail, Tucson, Arizona, to provide all of FSH's Telecom phone system services, as well as EZ Card & Kiosk's full complement of services. Pima County jail has 2355 beds and the facility releases over 140 inmates per day. FSH and CPSI will implement the EZ Release Card and install three kiosks at the main jail facility's booking area, holding area and lobby. One kiosk will also be installed at the Mission Street Work Release Center for work release payments by accepting employer's checks, money orders, credit/debit cards and cash.
"CPSI is looking forward to launching its EZ Card and Kiosk products and services at Pima County Jail with the business association through FSH Telecom, a real leader in the phone system service business for the correctional industry," according to Kirkton Shoop, recently appointed Vice-President Business Development for CPSI. He further added, "This will be the first of many correctional facilities around the country that EZ Card and Kiosk and FSH Telecom join forces on. We are proud to be associated with FSH Telecom and their parent company VAC, Inc., and feel we complement our services to the benefit of the correctional facilities we serve."
Mr. Shoop was instrumental in forming an alliance between CPSI and FSH Telecom, a respected provider of correctional facility phone systems. Subsequently, FSH has now been awarded the contract for Pima County Jail, Tucson, Arizona, to provide all of FSH's Telecom phone system services, as well as EZ Card & Kiosks full complement of services.
For additional information about EZ Card and Kiosk solutions, please visit our website at www.ezcardandkiosk.com.
About Continental Prison Systems Inc.
Continental Prison Systems Inc. (CPSI), dba EZ Card & 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 detention facilities. Via its proprietary software, teamed with customized kiosk hardware and remote secure website technology, EZ Card & Kiosk is a "cashless" system for booking, collecting and depositing cash holdings of a new inmate, allowing an inmate's family and friends to make deposits into their trust account, and refunding their money at the time of their release (EZ Release Card). The kiosk is similar in appearance to a "Stand-Alone" ATM. 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 errors and fraud.
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