son terminales dentro de la cárcel (inmate housing unit")para consulta, compras, etc.

For years, prison caseworkers spent a large part of their time acting as liaisons for individual inmates as the inmates sought information about money available to them in their prison bank accounts — typically earned from prison job assignments and deposited in their accounts or deposited by friends or relatives.

That arrangement started to change eight years ago when the department installed a network of personal computer-based kiosks with self-serve touch-screen capabilities — one kiosk in each housing unit. The system, called Info-Mate, succeeded in taking caseworkers out of the business of relaying bank balance information.