Correctional Facilities

Prisons and correctional facilities go above and beyond to ensure they maintain an orderly and safe environment for incarcerated individuals, staff, and visitors. A significant part of providing a safe environment is ensuring that effective emergency notification is used to alert all occupants, including those who may be elderly or disabled, of critical events like security breaches, prison escapes, evacuations, fires, and more. 

The Alertus System makes it easy for correctional facilities to create a comprehensive solution to keep staff, officers, inmates, and visitors safe by implementing audible and visual hardware solutions for emergency response, filling in notification coverage gaps when necessary, and making it easy to quickly send emergency alerts.

Enhance Your Notification Reach Across Your Facility 

Alertus leads the industry in offering innovative, emergency notification assistive technologies serving individuals with disabilities. This includes those who are deaf or hard of hearing, and who face higher risks of death or injury due to their inability to hear urgent announcements or fire alarms. 

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires detention and correctional facilities to communicate as effectively with prisoners with disabilities as they would with prisoners without disabilities (28 CFR § 35.160(a)(1)).

At least two percent of general holding and housing cells must be equipped with communication features designed to accommodate individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing. These features include telephones with volume control where telephones are provided in cells, and visible alarm signals where audible emergency alarm systems are provided for occupants of cells and occupants are allowed to evacuate independently (Sections 232 and 807, ADA Standards).

Alertus products are modular and designed with scalability in mind, allowing your correctional facility to customize its Alertus System to meet your unique needs and provide incarcerated individuals with reasonable accommodations.

Reliable Notification

Alertus provides affordable emergency communication that can reach everyone in loud environments. There are a number of solutions available to fit the unique needs of prison and correctional facilities.

• Alert Beacon®: Reliable and easy to install, the Alert Beacon is a wall-mounted device that offers audible and visual emergency communications that are not dependent on congested cell phone towers or the internet.
  

• LED Marquee: The Alertus LED Marquee provides a cost-effective, visual way to reach large indoor or outdoor public areas, like housing units and common areas, with emergency notifications or simple announcements. LED marquees require a wall-mounted Alert Beacon to drive it. LED displays and Alert Beacons serve deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals and ensure your facilities are ADA-compliant.
  

• Alert Display: The Alertus Alert Display is a commercial display that organizations can use to communicate critical messages across public indoor areas, such as corridors and building entrances.
  

• Fire Alarm Control Panel Interface: The Fire Alarm Control Panel Interface takes fire alarm event information from the fire panel, applies smart logic/transformation technologies, and broadcasts messages over multiple communication paths.
  

• Strobes: Alertus offers unique strobe devices with multicolored light options, and in some cases, clear sound to deliver various alerts from a single device. With the Alertus System, visual signaling is zone-able to enable safety officials to notify specific areas, buildings, and corridors.

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