Prisons and Correctional Facilities

The challenge

Correctional facilities require persistent visibility across housing units, corridors, recreation areas, intake areas, medical spaces, visitation areas, yards, perimeter zones, and staff-controlled areas. The Federal Bureau of Prisons has been actively replacing older analog infrastructure with digital cameras, improved networks, modern video management systems, storage, and analytics to eliminate blind spots and improve the quality of recorded evidence.

How MARCIA™ helps

Those improvements create a second challenge: dramatically more video data. Thousands of high-resolution cameras operating continuously can make long-term disk retention extremely costly. MARCIA™ provides correctional agencies with a more economical architecture by keeping active video on Tier-1 disk while preserving the complete long-term retention set on LTO. This reduces the pressure to sacrifice image quality or overwrite potentially important historical footage simply because primary storage has reached capacity.

Better video, better outcomes

Better preserved video can produce better outcomes in investigations of assaults, use-of-force incidents, contraband, inmate movement, employee conduct, medical events, perimeter breaches, and criminal activity. High-quality historical footage can support internal investigations, prosecutions, policy reviews, litigation, training, and future analytics. Recent federal oversight has also highlighted how retention problems can undermine otherwise improved camera systems.

No new workflow for operators

MARCIA is designed to make this additional retention operationally practical. Security personnel continue searching and reviewing video through the VMS workflow they already use. MARCIA manages the transition between disk and longterm LTO storage, helping correctional institutions preserve a more complete and reliable visual record without creating a separate archive workflow for operators.