Summary
Sixteen black boxes sit on gray metal shelves, their fans whirring softly in the basement of the Allegheny County Jail. In a facility near capacity, with a recent history of corruption and the constant potential for violence, this is the nerve center.
The boxes record and store everything captured by the jail's recently expanded video camera system. The new wave of technology at the Uptown lockup also includes a body scanner to detect drugs and other substances, and a key-holding safe that opens by scanning a fingerprint and logs which employees have which keys. The video cameras send out their images to televisions around the jail, including a big flat-screen TV on the wall of Warden Ramon C. Rustin's office.See the full content of this document
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County Jail Warden Steers Lockup to Order
Rustin arrived four years ago amid a series of crises involving sex, drugs and illness. Dan Onorato, the county executive who hired him, is touting a national accreditation report released last month as evidence that Rustin has reformed the ja...
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