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In the early 1990s, the Westchester County Department of Correction (DOC) in Valhalla,
N.Y., was hardly a model of efficient security. The complex access control system
hampered security efforts and the proprietary system forced security officials to
use only cards and equipment from one particular vendor.
The costly, four-building Westchester DOC system consisted of four buildings: the
maximum-security penitentiary of 365 beds, the jail for those awaiting trial, DOC
headquarters, and the DOC annex for an overflow prison population.
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