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JAIL

Officer waves his electronic scanner over a 3-inch red tag mounted near the cell door. In about one second, the device chirps and an inmate’s name pops up on the scanner’s screen. That motion and a couple of quick pecks on the screen will tell Hamilton County Jail staff where to find each of the building’s 505 inmates at a moment’s notice.