The Return on Investment for Advanced Body Scanners for Jails (2025)

The Cost of Inaction in 2025

1. Medical Emergencies & Overdoses: Fentanyl and other powerful narcotics have caused an increasing rate of medical emergencies, overdose treatments, hospitalizations and fatalities, each one carrying significant direct medical costs as well as potential liability and legal expenses.
2. Violence and Assaults: Weapons cause violence between inmates, increasing assault risks on correctional officers and incurring costs associated with managing these incidents. Medical treatment costs related to injuries sustained, staff time for investigations and lockdowns, potential workers’ compensation claims, and litigation expenses all add up quickly to make managing these events costly.
3. Staffing Inefficiencies: Manual searches can be tedious and produce few tangible results for deeply concealed items. Strip searches are invasive and time-consuming and can create tension or litigation issues. Staff hours for these less effective search techniques represent significant operational expenses, which could otherwise be directed elsewhere.
4. Illicit Communication & Criminal Activity: Cell phones and SIM cards allow inmates to coordinate drug trafficking, escape attempts, intimidate witnesses or commit crimes from within the facility’s walls. The downstream costs from these activities are substantial and undermine the mission of correctional systems.
5. Damage and Repair: Reparation costs associated with facility damage caused by inmate violence or escape attempts can become expensive to fix.
6. Staff Morale and Turnover: Constant exposure to danger, the stress associated with working in dangerous environments, and dealing with security breaches negatively affect staff morale, resulting in higher turnover rates and recruitment and training costs for replacement staff.
7. Litigation and Settlements: Failing to provide a secure environment may result in costly lawsuits from inmates, staff members or victims of crimes facilitated through illicit contraband entering.

LINEV Systems®: Engineering the Solution for Modern Correctional Challenges

1. CLEARPASS · High Footfall People Screening:

• Industry-Leading Speed: CLEARPASS® provides non-contact screening at lightning fast speed (at just three seconds per individual while remaining stationary), significantly increasing throughput (240 scans an hour minimum) while eliminating bottlenecks, optimizing staff allocation and decreasing wait times
• Superior Image Quality: HD images provide better penetration and resolution, which increases an operator’s ability to identify threats quickly and precisely. This reduces missed contraband, thus mitigating costs associated with security breaches.
• Advanced Contraband Detection Software: Patented algorithms like our DRUGUARD® drug detection tool automatically assist operators in recognizing suspicious items ranging from weapons to drugs and electronics, with AI-powered assistance increasing detection probability while decreasing operator interpretation error and human mistake.
• Low Dose & Compliance: Low dose rates meet or surpass all applicable ANSI/HPS N43.17-2009 screening standards, providing safety to users while simultaneously addressing potential health concerns.
• Accessibility: Compliance with U.S. ADA standards ensures wheelchair-friendliness of the system and equitable screening processes.

2. CONPASS SMART DV · Prison Security Solution:

• Patented TRUE DUAL VIEW Technology: At the heart of CONPASS SMART DV’s effectiveness lies its patented true dual view technology. In contrast with systems simulating dual views, CONPASS SMART DV utilizes two independent X-ray generators and detector arrays, which produce two distinct images (full body focus and torso focus from different angles within a 5-second scan). Its true dual-view capability makes this technology highly effective at uncovering contrasted objects (such as drug packets or non-metallic items that might go unseen under single-view images. The CONPASS SMART DV can take on the most challenging concealment items and increases interception chances of internally smuggled illicit items.
• Optimized for Internal Concealment: While CLEARPASS® excels at overall screening, the CONPASS SMART DV’s dual-view perspective offers superior depth and clarity for identifying items within body cavities.
• Robust Detection: Like CLEARPASS®, DRUGUARD® can identify an array of threats such as weapons, electronics, drugs, precious stones, ceramics, and plastics using smart threat detection software.
• High Penetration & Resolution: Smart HD images allow for clear visualization
• Safety Compliance: Our system meets ANSI/HPS N43.17-2009 safety compliance, offering safe operation with selectable low-dose settings (starting from 0.25mSv).
• Modular Design: Enabling easier installation and possible relocation should facility needs change, modular designs offer ease of assembly and relocation if the need arises.

Calculating the Tangible and Intangible ROI

• Reduced Medical Costs: Fewer overdoses and drug-related medical emergencies translate directly to reduced treatment and hospitalization expenses.
• Lower Litigation Costs: Proactive detection helps mitigate incidents that could result in lawsuits (i.e. assault with weapons concealed under clothes and failure-to-protect claims). Asserting that state-of-the-art screening was used strengthens your facility’s legal position.
• Decreased Staffing Costs (Search Related): Although scanners require operators, their use reduces the number of hours spent performing less effective manual searches by allowing more staff members to focus on other responsibilities.
• Reduced Repair Costs: Fewer weapons mean fewer incidents leading to reduced repair costs,
• Potential Decrease in Insurance Premiums: Strong security measures can result in more favorable terms

• Increased Throughput: Faster processing of inmates and visitors using CLEARPASS® reduces processing times while improving operational efficiencies.
• Improved Detection Accuracy: AI-assisted detection combined with superior imaging technologies allows for more precise contraband identification.
• Enhanced Deterrence: Effective scanning technology provides enhanced deterrence by effectively dissuading attempts at smuggling before they even take place.
• Actionable Intelligence: Provides security staff with invaluable intelligence about possible smuggling patterns or repeat offenders.

• Improved Inmate Safety: Reducing drugs and weapons creates a safer living environment for inmates.
• Enhanced Staff Safety: Protecting officers against assaults related to weapons. Safer working conditions boost morale while increasing retention rate.
• Greater Institutional Control: Effectively curbing contraband flow allows administrators to maintain more command of their facility environment.
• Disruption of Criminal Networks: Intercepting communication devices reduces inmates’ ability to coordinate illegal activity inside and outside facility walls
• Improved Public Trust: Demonstrating a serious commitment to security increases the facility’s reputation.