According to The New York Department of Correctional Services, The New York Correctional facilities employ the use of 99 BOSS chairs throughout the city. All Correctional facilities, with the exception of a few minimum security prisons, have at least one BOSS chair. All high security prisons have at least two chairs.
B.O.S.S. is a unique, fast, non-intrusive, inexpensive, high sensitivity detector designed to detect metal objects hidden in body cavities. It is commonly used in corrections facilities to scan inmates for weapons and contraband objects hidden in anal, vaginal, oral and nasal cavities. At some sites visitors are also screened.
B.O.S.S. has undergone extensive testing at US State and Federal Corrections facilities and has received considerable attention in both the electronic and print media.
The screening procedure is safe, fast and efficient. The person being screened simply positions his / her chin near the oral sensor and then sits momentarily in the chair. The entire procedure takes just a few seconds. Magnetic field sensors housed in the seat of the chair and the oral sensor assembly automatically interrogate for the presence of metal. Audio and visual alarms are activated when metal is carried into the magnetic field. An alarm remains activated for the duration that an object is within the low intensity magnetic field.
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According to The New York Department of Correctional Services, The New York Correctional facilities employ the use of 99 BOSS chairs throughout the city. All Correctional facilities, with the exception of a few minimum security prisons, have at least one BOSS chair. All high security prisons have at least two chairs.
