The Coles County Sheriff’s Office is a 115-bed facility located in Charleston, IL. Located in Charleston, Illinois, Coles Co. Sheriff’s Office is digitally transforming its inmate management objectives with the Command & Control platform from GUARDIAN RFID, to automate its inmate tracking, security rounds, including face-to-face cell checks on high-risk and administrative segregation offenders, and other activity logging in real-time.


MAPLE GROVE, Minn., Nov. 10, 2018 /PRNewswire — GUARDIAN RFID, the global leader in inmate management and tracking systems, today announce Coles County Sheriff's’ Office has chosen GUARDIAN RFID for its 115-bed facility.

Located in Charleston, Illinois, Coles Co. Sheriff’s Office is digitally transforming its inmate management objectives with the Command & Control platform from GUARDIAN RFID, to automate its inmate tracking, security rounds, including face-to-face cell checks on high-risk and administrative segregation offenders, and other activity logging in real-time.

Coles County Sheriff’s Office relies heavily on manual and paper-based systems. This includes everything from paper logging inmate movements and headcounts, to cell checks on high-risk offenders, which results in miscommunication and time-consuming report generation. Other inmate activity logging may be entered into their jail management system, VisionRMS, from CentralSquare Technologies (previously TriTech.)

The Coles Co. Jail is also migrating from EndurID wristbands to Clincher X-Wide RFID Wristbands for electronic and visual identification, which will assist correctional officers and deputies streamline a wide range of interactions from court transports and pill calls to recreation time.

Operational Dominance with Ultra-Rugged Android

Coles Co. team members are deploying SPARTAN, the ultra-rugged Android from GUARDIAN RFID, running Mobile Command software. The sheriff’s office is also deploying hardened RFID tags strategically located throughout their facility to automate a wide range of data collection and reporting, including security checks and cell checks, headcounts, meal and recreation offerings, and a wide-range of other inmate activity logging at the point of responsibility.

Log face-to-face interactions with high-risk offenders with Mobile Command, the Android app that runs on SPARTAN, the ultra-rugged Android scanner from GUARDIAN RFID.

Command & Control

Coles County chose GUARDIAN RFID because of its superior reporting and data collection, as well as the depth of its configurability and Cloud reporting. Features such as Workflows, which supports the ability to create fully customizable modules, as well as the ability to capture inmate activity logging in real-time and secure, and existing integration support with VisionRMS, were critical capabilities supported by GUARDIAN RFID.


Corrections professionals gain real-time operational awareness with secure access to the GUARDIAN RFID Cloud, supporting tools, dashboards, reports, and more from any Internet-accessible device, including tablets, smartphones, workstations, and laptops

The GUARDIAN RFID Cloud, OnDemand, will also help Coles Co. gain real-time situational awareness, monitor security round performance, and access activity streams and reporting tools from anywhere, while working with its offender management system, VisionRMS from CentralSquare Technologies.

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About Coles Co. Sheriff’s Office

The Coles County Sheriff’s Office is a 115-bed facility located in Charleston, IL. Coles Co. services a population of 53,697.

For more information, visit http://www.co.coles.il.us/sheriff/

About GUARDIAN RFID

GUARDIAN RFID is the leader in managing, monitoring, and tracking inmates in-custody to mitigate risk, maximize defensibility, and strengthen compliance with its Command and Control platform. Endorsed by National Sheriffs' Association.

For more information, visit https://guardianrfid.com or call 855-777-RFID (7343).

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