Security Video System Standards Correctional Facilities

Security Video System Standards for Correctional Facilities

Washington State Department of Corrections State Project 2011-330A

KMB Project J1126

Updated June 11, 2014 - Version 1.0

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Table of Contents

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Executive Summary.................................................................................................................................ES-1

Legislation....................................................................................................................................ES-1 Background .................................................................................................................................. ES-1

Recommendations for Standards ................................................................................................ES-2 Cost Forecast ..............................................................................................................................ES-3 Implementation ............................................................................................................................ES-3

1.

Background .................................................................................................................................................... 1

2.

Introduction .................................................................................................................................................... 3

A.

Department Mission.............................................................................................................3

B.

What is a Security Video System? ......................................................................................3

C. What are the Purposes for Deploying a Security Video System?........................................3

D. Digital Technology Transition ..............................................................................................4

E.

Variance in Existing Conditions ...........................................................................................5

F.

Standards Development and Application.............................................................................6

G. Standards Document Organization .....................................................................................6

3.

Purposes for Deployment of Security Video System Cameras .................................................................7

A.

Camera Deployment Purposes ...........................................................................................7

1) Movement Control

2) General Surveillance Monitoring

3) Activity Monitoring

4) Specialized Monitoring

5) Alarm Association

4.

Locations Where Security Video System Cameras Should be Deployed...............................................11

A.

Security Level Differences.................................................................................................11

1) Facility Security Levels

2) Offender Characteristics and Application of Security Video System

B.

Facilities Housing Female Offenders.................................................................................12

1) PREA Considerations

2) Role of Security Video System

C. Facility Matrix for Deployment of Cameras........................................................................12 1) Matrix Table

5.

Security Video System Resolution Standard Basis..................................................................................13

A.

Understanding Video Resolution ? Simply ........................................................................13

1) Video Resolution

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B.

Analog and Digital Cameras..............................................................................................13

1) Methods of Defining Resolution

2) Analog Image Degradation Issues

3) Digital Image Resolution

4) Megapixel Resolution

5) Other Resources

C. Legacy WSDOC Video Systems and Resolution Issues ...................................................14 1) Legacy Systems

2) Viewable Resolution 3) Recorded Resolution and Frame Rate Drive Storage Requirements

4) Understanding CIF 5) Image Size 6) Resolution Equals Pixels per Inch

7) Monitor Pixels 8) Megapixel Display Issues

D. Setting Resolution or Acuity Standards .............................................................................16 1) Determining Image Resolution (or Acuity) Standards

2) Security Industry Guidelines 3) Correctional Facility Standards 4) Effect of Camera Lens Selection/Setting

E.

Image Quality Factors .......................................................................................................18

1) Image Quality Considerations

6.

Standards and Requirements for the Security Video System .................................................................19

A.

Cameras ............................................................................................................................19

1) Types

2) Surveillance and Identification Cameras

3) Camera Environment

4) Camera Location

5) Camera View Coverage

6) Standards for Camera Image Acuity (or Resolution)

B.

Live Video Viewing (Monitoring) ........................................................................................21

1) Master Control

2) Other Control Points

3) Movement Control

4) Large Areas of Control

5) Limited Control

6) Specialized Monitoring Points

7) Perimeter Detection Alarms

C. Recording ..........................................................................................................................23 1) Cameras to be Recorded

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2) Recording Parameters

D. Archived Video Viewing.....................................................................................................24 1) Viewing Workstations

E.

Infrastructure Requirements ..............................................................................................24

1) Security Video System Network

2) Systems Environment

3) Owner Furnished Services

4) Hardware to be Furnished by Owner and Installed by Owner or Contractor

7.

Application to Existing Facilities ...............................................................................................................25

A.

Existing Conditions / Needs / Capital Costs ......................................................................25

1) Airway Heights Corrections Center (AHCC)

2) Clallam Bay Corrections Center (CBCC)

3) Cedar Creek Corrections Center (CCCC)

4) Coyote Ridge Corrections Center (CRCC)

5) Larch Corrections Center (LCC)

6) Monroe Correctional Complex (MCC)

7) Mission Creek Corrections Center for Women (MCCCW)

8) Olympic Corrections Center (OCC)

9) Stafford Creek Corrections Center (SCC)

10) Washington Corrections Center (WCC)

11) Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW)

12) Washington State Penitentiary (WSP)

B.

Strategies to Achieve the Standards .................................................................................30

1) Masterplans

2) Priorities

C. Understanding the Cost Estimating ...................................................................................30 1) Capital Costs 2) Non-Capital Costs and Savings

8.

Appendices ................................................................................................................................................ A-1

A.

Abbreviations and Acronyms........................................................................................... A-1

B.

Facility Matrix for Deployment of Cameras......................................................................A-3

1) Intent of Matrix

2) Application

3) Matrix Table (pages FM-1 through FM-19)

C. Camera Field of View Diagrams ? WSDOC Security Video System Standards for Resolution

0.1 and 0.3 Megapixel Cameras 0.4 and 1.3 Megapixel Cameras 2.0 Megapixel and 3.0 Megapixel Cameras

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5.0 Megapixel Cameras

D. Security Electronics Network Diagram

E.

Estimate of Capital Costs for Standards Implementation Statewide ? Table

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Executive Summary

Legislation

KMB design groups, inc., p.s. was tasked by the Washington State Department of Corrections (WSDOC) with addressing the requirements outlined in Section 6 of Engrossed Senate Bill 5907, passed by the 62nd Legislature and signed into law by the Governor. Section 6 of the Bill requires that a consultant make recommendations regarding statewide standards for positioning and use of video monitoring cameras in total confinement correctional facilities.

Specifically, the reporting is to Make recommendations for the use of video monitoring cameras by security level, Make recommendations for specific locations within a total confinement correctional facility which would benefit from the use of video monitoring cameras, Inform regarding the information technological and infrastructure requirements needed for effective use of video monitoring cameras, Make recommendations for how video monitoring cameras would best be deployed in current total confinement correctional facilities, Make recommendations about how video monitoring cameras should be incorporated into future prison construction, to ensure consistency in camera use statewide, and Develop the estimated cost of the video monitoring cameras, supporting infrastructure needed, and staffing required.

Background

In its prison facilities today, WSDOC has widely varying levels of deployment of Security Video Systems. There is one prison without any cameras, while the recently constructed Coyote Ridge Corrections Center Medium Security Complex has over 700 cameras.

It is important to understand that few cameras are actively being viewed at any given time. There are no staff positions (posts) dedicated to watching video monitors. Instead, cameras are deployed strategically for operational purposes, and for activity or specialized monitoring on a periodic as-needed basis. Other cameras serve to provide overview monitoring of areas of the facility to help staff detect abnormal conditions warranting further attention, and some cameras may be linked to monitoring systems for surveillance of areas where an alarm is triggered.

Historically, prison facilities had cameras only for doors and gates that were controlled but not directly viewable by the control panel operator, and at a few areas where risks of incidents and/or introduction of contraband was high. Today, with an emphasis on highly efficient staffing models, and with advances in control panel technology local control booths may not have 24/7 staffing so their door and gate control operations are transferred to a remote control panel, necessitating more cameras for operational purposes. Also, in the new staffing models offenders do not always have fulltime direct supervision, creating a need for camera surveillance at areas previously not covered.

The Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) is adopted by WSDOC as a no-tolerance policy, and the Security Video System is integral to that policy as a deterrent, and for forensic use in investigation of allegations.

When events of any type occur (or are alleged to have occurred) in a prison they must be reviewed forensically postevent. Video records are critical for support of a criminal or quasi-judicial action, or for defense against civil litigation. The quality of the video archive must be high, and the data must be available, retrievable, and secure against

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destruction or tampering. The State Agency record retention standard applicable to security video recordings is for 30-day retention, or until matter resolution if the recording is involved in litigation.

Some prisons still operate with video-cassette recorders (VCR's) recording on looping magnetic tape. Those devices are obsolete, and require daily tape changes and a structured process for labeling, rotating, replacing tapes when worn, and the maintenance of a vast library of tapes in order to maintain records for any significant time period.

Other prisons have multiple small standalone video system "clusters" with based around recording on digital video recorders (DVR's) writing video data to hard drives, which may not have any redundancy and very limited capacity. The DVR's dispersed around a facility are usually not networked or synchronized with the other DVR's for date/time coordination, making data retrieval difficult, and with the potential for compromised evidentiary value.

In contrast, the few facilities recently built or which have had a major facilities expansion have a site-wide digital network video management systems (NVMS) with robust and efficient archival storage devices which can be centrally managed, similar to those found in modern IT data centers. Even those facilities, however, often have analog cameras, where the video signaling is converted to digital by separate hardware devices known as "encoders".

To meet its operational needs, older systems are being upgraded and/or expanded whenever funding can be obtained, often by the facility's maintenance staff without the benefit of a system Masterplan or any analysis of the appropriate technologies, or a well-reasoned vision of a sustainable and comprehensive long-term strategy. This has led to a "hodge-podge" of deployments. So, it is very appropriate that these "Standards for Security Video Systems" are developed, to complement and update the "Security System Design Guidelines" that were recently completed by KMB for WSDOC's use in conjunction with its projects.

Recommendations for Standards

The recommendations are organized to inform and establish the basis for the recommended Standards in the following topics:

Purposes for deployment of Video System cameras (Part 3) Locations where Video System cameras should be deployed (Part 4) The basis for the Security Video System Resolution Standards (Part 5) Standards and requirements for the Security Video System Deployment (Part 6) How the Standards are to be applied to existing facilities, with estimated costs, strategies, and

recommended priorities for implementation (Part 7)

The Standards, in comparison with the existing conditions, generally will: Require more areas of the prison facilities to have camera coverage, Require upgrading the acuity level of the imaging in areas of large expanses of coverage, to achieve better forensic value, Require IT infrastructure improvements for implementation of a Security Video System that operates on a reliable high-speed Ethernet network providing site-wide connectivity (a fully integrated system), and Require increased and expandable video archive storage capacity.

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