The company also provides 24-hour monitoring services of its equipment to community corrections agencies who choose to contract out their electronic home arrest programmes. In December 1995, BI bought JurisMonitor, Inc. to address the needs of programmes designed to reduce risk in domestic violence cases. CCC provides probation services in Georgia and Tennessee. The company claims that its products provide viable, cost-effective solutions to the problem of prison overcrowding, as well as additional innovative tools for corrections agencies and jails to manage more efficiently. BI also says that its monitoring services enable corrections agencies to effectively manage probation and parole populations for less than one-half the daily rate of incarceration, particularly if offenders are made to pay towards the cost of their monitoring.
Some government agencies purchase equipment and run their own monitoring programmes.
Others use both BI's monitoring equipment and services or purchase equipment from the company and then contract with it for the service portion of monitoring. In 1996, BI sold its equipment to distributors in the Netherlands and South Africa. But it has found the UK market elusive, where Securicor and Geografix, which operate trial programmes, use equipment from other sources. BI believes, however, that even if it loses, the cases will have no long term adverse effect on the company. EC1V 0AH, England.