The Frozen Mammoth

The COVID-19 pandemic has created health and management challenges in nearly every industry, especially those that involve frequent person-to-person contact.

Finding new ways to reduce personal contact while carrying out necessary tasks is a priority today as the country and world attempts to reduce the spread of this and other viruses.

Although masking, vaccinations, and social distancing can help considerably, the challenge is best dealt with in settings requiring security checks with full body scanning.

With touchless body scanning, security checks can be safer in many ways, including reducing the spread of viruses like COVID-19.

Helpful Improvements to Contraband Detection Technology

As contraband detection technology continues to improve, it is making its way into more correctional facilities and other places where quick and safe security checks are necessary.

Today’s more advanced full body scanning units make finding even the hardest to detect items like illegal substances easier, all without any physical contact.

Pat downs and other physical checks have been greatly reduced using high-definition body scanning, and with lower radiation loads delivered, scanners are safer than ever before.

Effect of COVID-19 on Need for Advanced Body Scanning Machines

Now, when adding the need to avoid physical contact to reduce the spread of viruses like COVID-19, these advanced body scanning machines have taken yet another step toward maintaining the safety of both the security personnel running the scanners and the inmates or others passing through them.

This important step has become one more necessary measure that facilities can take to ensure the safety of all people.

With Coronavirus and its new emerging variants continuing to be an issue that facilities of all types must continuously deal with, the market for newer and more advanced full body scanning units is growing exponentially.

In the past year alone, sales have increased substantially and market predictions expect sales in the U.S. alone to nearly double in the next 5 years, from $3.9 B in sales today to nearly $6B in 2026.

This is a very good indication that investing in this type of contraband detection technology today is not only recommended, but it seems to be the way the industry is moving to do its part in the fight against COVID-19.

A Look Back

Fortunately, with so much need and interest in more powerful, yet safe and efficient body scanning, the technology will continue to improve and become more economical.

For those facilities considering updating their full body scanning equipment to today’s safer, and more sensitive scanning machines there is now one more important reason to make that change now.

Full body scanners are the most effective, safe, and humane methods for keeping prisons safe from all the contraband that inmates and others may try to bring through the doors.

While this technology accurately detects most contraband today, it also works as a deterrent as scanners can be used to establish probable cause.

More people now understand that the more advanced full body scanners for corrections facilities are almost fool-proof.

With the risk of being charged with another crime at stake if contraband is detected, inmates and their accomplices are less willing to actually try bringing in drugs, weapons, and other prohibited items.

How Is Probably Cause Used?

In terms of full body security scanning, probably cause is the act of finding a suspicious area on the scan that requires further investigation.

Anomalies on scans, whether they appear to be on the body or within it, require additional searches, from pat downs to cavity searches.

Of course, facilities want to minimize the need to go through the effort of obtaining a search warrant to do a cavity search or even take an inmate to the hospital to have contraband medically removed, so accurate scanning is a must.

The Value of Accurate Full Body Scanners

The more accurate a full body scanner is and the greater its capability is to differentiate between bone, organs, and tissue versus other materials and substances, the fewer warrants and searches are required.

With this improved capacity to interpret different materials and substances, today’s advanced scanners for corrections facilities are so accurate, most people avoid even trying to bring in contraband.

That said, when a scan does reveal an anomaly or find something of suspect inside the body, the accuracy that it is actually contraband and not just a non-identifiable part of the body is high.

Smuggling Attempts Can Be Nearly Eliminated

Though security at prison facilities find that most inmates try to smuggle in prohibited items for personal use or barter, some do still attempt to bring in weapons even with full body scanners and with the threat of felony charges.

Drugs, cigarettes, and marijuana are the most frequently discovered contraband, but pocket knives and other items that can cause bodily harm continue to be found.

It is critical for the safety of every person at these facilities that these items be detected through high-accuracy scanning and the person searched to confiscate that contraband.

Today’s leading full body scanners for corrections facilities can now find those items more easily and more precisely establish the probable cause reasoning to do additional searches.