FRESNO, Calif., Sept. 23, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Continental Prison Systems Inc. (CPSI) (Pink Sheets:CPSZ), dba EZ Card & Kiosk, recently completed the installation and training of its first California county jail facility at Madera County, California. Madera County incorporates one kiosk in the booking room area, with another to follow shortly, and two kiosks in the lobby area, as well as issuing a debit card upon the inmate's release from the facility.
The EZ Booking Kiosk(s) handle all of the paper money and coins during the booking process, which also allows the inmate to send up to three pre-written EZ Text Messages to friends, family and legal counsel, expediting and reducing the turn-around time for releasing inmates from the facility.
The EZ Money Load Kiosks in the lobby area offers the convenience to friends and family when loading money into the inmate's trust account, accepting cash, credit and/or debit card. The bail process can also be handled by this lobby kiosk, using cash, credit and/or debit card. Both EZ Money Load and EZ Bail can also be accessed via a secure remote website for the convenience of friends and family in the Madera County area, or anywhere in the U.S.
When the inmate is being released from the facility, the EZ Release Debit Card will be issued, giving the inmate the convenience and flexibility of a four digit PIN-based debit card which can be used at any ATM or point-of-sale retail outlet.
CPSI offers city and county jails of North America a number of products and services that help to streamline and reduce many of the operational financial obligations required to run these facilities. CPSI has coined the tag line -- "Cashless Jail" -- via a full suite of proprietary software, teamed with customized kiosk hardware and remote secure website technology. Our goal is to help convert a jail into a 'cashless' environment through the use of kiosks for in-coming cash and a debit card for out-going cash, relieving the facilities from handling cash repeatedly, therefore reducing time, errors, mistakes and fraud. Consequently, the facility recognizes a reduction in personnel time and bookkeeping issues related to this aspect of managing a correctional facility.
About Continental Prison Systems, Inc. (www.ezcardandkiosk.com)
Continental Prison Systems Inc. (CPSI), dba EZ Card & Kiosk, is the first kiosk, internet payment and release debit card provider to successfully introduce a full-suite solution for the "Cashless Jail." The company offers innovative solutions to city and county jails designed to streamline and reduce many of the operational and personnel costs required to properly manage a major segment of detention facilities. When offering its proprietary software, teamed with customized kiosk hardware and remote secure website technology, EZ Card & Kiosk creates a system for jails for the booking process of collecting and depositing cash holdings of a new inmate; bail by kiosk or remote website; money load by an inmate's family and friends to make deposits into their trust account by kiosk or remote website; and issuing the inmate's money at the time of their release via the EZ Release Card, a PIN-based debit card. The kiosk is similar in appearance to a "Stand-Alone" ATM with user-friendly interfaces. Our goal is to help convert the jail into a "cashless" environment through the use of kiosks for incoming cash and the issuance of a debit card to an inmate at the time of his/her release. In doing so, the facility is relieved from repeatedly handling cash, further reducing personnel time, errors and fraud.
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