US Prisons Implement Revealing Airport Full Body Scanners

By: | November 19th, 2014

Last year, the TSA pulled backscatter machines from airports after the x-rays proved to be far too invasive for airports and widely controversial.

However, it seems as though the full-body scanners have found a new home in US prisons after the Federal Times recently reported that 154 of the machines have been distributed to a number of prisons across the country.

Whether the backscatter machines’ new lease on life will prove to be successful remains to be seen, but prisons are certainly a more acceptable location for such revealing technology.

The TSA is working to find locations for 96 more scanners that remain at the vendor Rapiscan’s warehouse.

Marshall Smith

Technology, engineering, and design enthusiast.

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