Body cameras deployed in Arizona prisons for transparency and safety

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Body cameras deployed in Arizona prisons for transparency and safety
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The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry is deploying 1,300 body-worn cameras to state prisons to increase transparency and improve safety for staff and inmates.

The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry has rolled out 1,300 body-worn cameras to state prisons as part of its "Reimagining Corrections" initiative.The new technology is intended to increase transparency and modernize the department's documentation.

When activated, either manually by an officer or automatically by an act like the removal of a Taser from a belt, both video and audio are retained for review with a two-minute pre-event buffer."If it's somebody that's in medical stress, somebody not being compliant, those are absolutely times when you should be recording," Johnson explained.

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