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Introduction: Sweden is aiming towards that all their correctional facilities will be cash-free and instead implement a prepaid electronic card system that can be used by inmates while in prison as well as outside the prison in connection with leaves and conditional release. Therefore they have a keen interest in the modus operandi used within this field in other Member States.
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Do you use some sort of prepaid electronic card that the inmates can use?No; the Austrian Law on Enforcement of Penal Sanctions sets forth that inmates are not allowed to have cash at their disposal in prison. Nevertheless they may recieve cash for day release and under electronic monitoring.
If you use a pre-paid electronic card, how does that system work (in brief)?no
Do you use some sort of prepaid electronic card that the inmates can use?No use of electronic cards Note: He is, however, given the opportunity to have an individual account opened in prison at the time of his incarceration. The detainee can freely spend the money in his account.
If you use a pre-paid electronic card, how does that system work (in brief)?Not applicable
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Do you use some sort of prepaid electronic card that the inmates can use?Cards are not used but inmates have an electronic prepaid key that allows them to make phone calls and purchases only inside prison. This electronic key is managed by the CIRE (Center for Reinsertion Initiatives), a dependent entity of the Department of Justice in charge of the management of vending machines, stores, productive workshops, vocational training and the labour insertion of inmates of the Catalonian prisons.
If you use a pre-paid electronic card, how does that system work (in brief)?The CIRE gives each inmate an electronic key associated with a personal account ("peculi") in which each inmate (or their families) has previously made a deposit of money for the expenses they may have inside the prison center. This key can be used in all penitentiary centers of Catalonia.
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Do you use some sort of prepaid electronic card that the inmates can use?No. In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania every prisoner has two accounts in the prison. One account is for the money the prisoners bring with them at the beginning of the sentence and the money, the prisoners receive during the prison term ("Eigengeldkonto"). The other account is for a certain percentage of the remuneration of the prisoners ("Hausgeldkonto"). The prisoners can freely dispose about the "Hausgeld", for instance they can buy goods from the shop keeper, newspapers, toiletries etc.
If you use a pre-paid electronic card, how does that system work (in brief)?Not applicable.
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Do you use some sort of prepaid electronic card that the inmates can use?Prisoners transactions (tuck shop, money in / money out, etc) managed through the Prisoner Accounts Management System.
If you use a pre-paid electronic card, how does that system work (in brief)?yes
Do you use some sort of prepaid electronic card that the inmates can use?Prisoners’ money (Rule 51) (1) The Governor may specify in relation to any prisoner or any category of prisoner, whether the prisoner or any prisoner in that category— (a)may have cash in his or her possession; and (b)if so, the maximum amount of, or the denominations of, cash which the prisoner may possess. (2) Any other money belonging to a prisoner which— (a)represents earnings paid by virtue of rule 86; or (b)has been received in the prison and which does not exceed any restrictions as to the amount of money which a prisoner may receive as may be prescribed in a direction made under rule 55(5), must be paid into an account under the control of the Governor. (3) Subject to paragraph (4), a prisoner may withdraw money held in an account under paragraph (2) by authorising the Governor to deduct such sums as are required for the purpose of— (a)making specific payments to persons outwith the prison; or (b)purchasing any article in prison or arranging for any article to be delivered to the prison. 4) The Governor may specify in relation to any prisoner, or any category of prisoner, the maximum amount which may be withdrawn by that prisoner or that category of prisoners— (a)during any specified period; and (b)for the purposes of purchasing any article in prison or any article to be delivered to prison. (5) The Governor must, in respect of each prisoner— (a)keep a record of all money deposited in an account controlled by the Governor under paragraph (2); (b)keep a record of all money withdrawn in an account controlled by the Governor under paragraph (2); and (c)make such arrangements as the Governor considers appropriate for all monies held in an account controlled by the Governor under paragraph (2) to be paid to the prisoner on release from prison other than on temporary release. (6) Nothing in this rule is to be interpreted as preventing a prisoner from opening or maintaining an account with a bank or a building society but the use of such an account will be subject to the other provisions of these Rules.
If you use a pre-paid electronic card, how does that system work (in brief)?In the two private prisons within the Scottish penal estate - HMP Kilmarnock and HMP Addiewell - a Personal Self-Service system operates through kiosks located within the halls. These kiosks operate with biometric fingerprint identification allowing prisoners to complete tasks previously carried out using resource intensive paper-based application systems. The range of functions on the kiosks are: prisoner account balance enquiry; canteen shopping; PIN phone top up; menu ordering; individual prisoner timetable; visits booking; noticeboard; applications for health care appointments, clothing items, employment change, edu
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Do you use some sort of prepaid electronic card that the inmates can use?According with normative acts, prisoners, except those in open prisons, are not allowed to keep cash with them. A record is made in prisoner's personal money registry card about the cash that the prisoner transfers, after which the corresponding sum is transferred to the prison deposit account with the State Treasury. Inmates are allowed to receive unlimited money transfers, as well as to transfer money themselves. Payment for the purchased items in prison, except in open prisons, is carried out not with cash, but with a transfer. The costs are registered in the prisoner's personal account according with the application completed by the prisoner. Inmates use business cards with additional functions to pay for items in prison store. After paying with the card in prison store, the money is automatically withdrawn from the personal account of the inmate. Prisoner's money is paid out from the prison cash-desk on the day when the prisoner is being released from the imprisonment place.
If you use a pre-paid electronic card, how does that system work (in brief)?Please see answer to previous question.
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Do you use some sort of prepaid electronic card that the inmates can use?No. Inmates may receive money transfer or persons may bring cash to prison, in either case money is transferred into an inmate’s personal account.
If you use a pre-paid electronic card, how does that system work (in brief)?n/a
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Do you use some sort of prepaid electronic card that the inmates can use?NIPS do not use electronic cards as a method of payment. Upon committal, each prisoner is allocated an Inmate Private Cash (IPC) account. This account is used for all expenditure and income in relation to the prisoner, and at no time does the prisoner have access to monies held in the account in the form of hard currency.
If you use a pre-paid electronic card, how does that system work (in brief)?Not applicable
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Do you use some sort of prepaid electronic card that the inmates can use?The prison service transfers the wages of a prisoner and other funds paid to the prisoner to the internal personal account of the prisoner. Internal personal account of the prisoner is managed by the accounting system of financial resources of prisoners. Of the funds deposited in the personal account of a prisoner, 50 per cent shall be reserved for the satisfaction of monetary/financial claims, 20 per cent shall be deposited as a savings fund to be handed over to the prisoner on release and the rest of the funds shall be reserved for the use of the prisoner inside the prison pursuant to the internal rules of the prison. If no monetary/financial claims exist against the prisoner or if the claims amount to less than 50 per cent of the funds in the prisoner's personal account, the corresponding funds in the personal account of the prisoner shall also be deposited as a savings fund to be handed over to the prisoner on release. The savings fund shall be deposited in the amount equal to three times the minimum monthly wages established by the Government of the Republic. At the request of the prisoner, the savings fund may be deposited in an amount exceeding the amount equal to three times the minimum monthly wages established by the Government of the Republic and the funds reserved for the use of the prisoner inside the prison may be used for the satisfaction of monetary/financial claims, sent to his or her family members or dependants or transferred to his or her bank account.
If you use a pre-paid electronic card, how does that system work (in brief)?The accounting system of financial resources of prisoners is a database belonging to the state information system kept for accounting of the financial resources of persons imprisoned and in custody pending trial, the objective of which is: 1) to provide an overview of the amounts received on the personal accounts of prisoners and persons held in custody; 2) to keep account of fulfilment of claims filed against prisoners and persons held in custody; 3) to collect statistics related to crime which is necessary for the making criminal policy decisions; 4) to enable electronic forwarding of data and documents. The following information shall be entered in the database: 1) information concerning wages and other income transferred to personal accounts; 2) information concerning amounts deducted from personal accounts and fulfilment of claims; 3) information concerning shopping and other services consumed in prison.
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Do you use some sort of prepaid electronic card that the inmates can use?No. Convicts and pre-trial detainees use a card with a numerical code for cashless purchases in a prison shop and for making phone calls. These cards can be used only in the prison.
If you use a pre-paid electronic card, how does that system work (in brief)?Pre-trial detainees and convicts have kept their finances on an account of the prison that are recorded under its own unique identification account number. The stated identification number is also stated on the card with the numerical code. Finances of all pre-trial detainees and convicts are administered in a financial application where all transfers on accounts of pre-trial detainees and convicts are registered – expense, income, blocking of finances etc. After arrival in the prison shop, the pre-trial detainee and convict submit his/her card with the numerical code that is loaded in an electronic cash register and a seller knows how much the pre-trial detainee and convict can purchase. After the end of purchases, the seller downloads from the electronic cash register an electronic file including amounts of purchases in the prison shop. This electronic file is loaded in the financial application where there are automatically withdrawn the purchase amount from the account of the pre-trial detainee or convict. Pre-trial detainees and convicts make phone calls from payphones installed in the prison using the card with the numerical code. At the same time, they recharge a credit for making phone-calls by these payphones. The pre-trial detainee and convict loads the card with the numerical code into the payphone and chooses the amount of the credit for telephoning. The amount of recharged credit for telephoning is loaded from the financial application that automatically withdraws the amount of the recharged credit for telephoning from the account of the pre-trial detainee or convict. The pre-trial detainee or convict can also send finances to his/her relatives, pay maintenance and active debts. However, these transactions are not made by the card the numerical code but by a request that is manually proceed by the prison officers.
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Do you use some sort of prepaid electronic card that the inmates can use?At open prison Criminal Sanctions Agency do allow inmates to have cash as well as all the other cards. At closed prison Criminal Sanction do not allow money in cash or any other cards than what they can have from priosn. Criminal Sanctions Agency have prepaid card in use at closed prison and at open prison if the inmate does not give us his own bank account number, we do give him our prepaid card.
If you use a pre-paid electronic card, how does that system work (in brief)?When inmate comes to closed prison, Criminal Sanctions Agency do put that money that he has in cash to the prepaid card so that he can make purchases right way. At open prison Criminal Sanctions Agency do not put inmate's cash to card. Criminal Sanctions agency pay allowances and salaries to iban bank accounts and every prepaid card has individual IBAN. Prepaid card can be used at prison as well as outside the prison. Inmate's can pay their purchases at canteen as well as they can pay fines or barber at prison. They can have the prepaid card with them when they have prison leave. At closed prison, if inmate want, Criminal Sanctions Agency can help him and pay his invoices from the MACP (card system for officers). If the inmate does not give his own bank acccount number when he is released he can have his prepaid card with him and it is valid for 3 months after release. Criminal Sanctions Agency normally pays allowances and salaries twice after releasment. Released inmates as well as inmates in open prisons can pay themselves invoices via CCP (cardholder portal) and they can see transactions and their card's balance.
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