Prison contractors have badge swiped at monitor points to verify identity

A man who has spent most of his prison sentence in hospital has earned the mercy of the courts. A judge ruled the prisoner, Daniel Roque Hall, can return home after he was given a three-year sentence at Isleworth Crown Court in July after admitting trying to smuggle cocaine worth more than £300,000 through Heathrow. Hall, a disabled man from north-west London, was sent to Wormwood Scrubs in west London, but since then he has mainly resided in University College Hospital.

Time and Attendance South East can supply to HM prisons the Prison Pass – a low cost, easy to install, computer based pass system for registering each visitor, both on and off site. At controlled monitor points, the visitor pass badge is simply swiped and a high quality digital image appears to the HM Prison Service Officer, thus verifying that the correct person is passing through. It records the historical movements of inmate visitors and contractor times on site.