After the death of Sandra Bland in 2015, a company that sells digital technology to prisons actively promoted its products to jails in Texas, attempting to take advantage of reforms made in the wake of national protests.
Moreover, Guardian RFID will surely get more contracts after high-profile news stories like thewhere guards fell asleep on the job. A wealthy financier held on federal charges of sex trafficking, Epstein hung himself with a bedsheet at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City, which has since been temporarily shuttered due to security and infrastructure issues. Guards were supposed to check on Epstein every 30 minutes the night of his death.
One of Guardian RFID’s largest contracts is with Sheriff Marian Brown who runs the Dallas County Jail in Texas, the seventh-largest jail in the U.S. with an average daily population of 6,000 people. The three-year contract, approved on December 15, 2020, was for a total of $1.1 million. The dollar amount for the first year was $477,770, with $391,475 coming from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act , a $2 trillion stimulus bill passed in March 2020.
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