What’s New in flex Jail

We're excited to review the work that was done this past quarter to improve your Flex Jail system and the tools you use to manage your system. To upgrade your system, schedule an appointment at flex-update.appointlet.com. Customer requests for upgrades will take place as they are currently scheduled.

E-Signature for Medical Assessments
Jail personnel need technology that allows them to get the information they need as quickly and seamlessly as possible so they can get back to work. With the 2023.3 release, users can now collect eSignatures on Medical Assessments for verification purposes.

In order to accept eSignatures, your agency administrator must set up a setting control for signatures to be captured for medical assessments. Once this setting is enabled, the system prompts for signatures when a medical assessment is saved. The logged in user is prompted for a signature, which can be the saved officer signature of the logged in user. The system then prompts for the inmate signature. Once completed, the signed record is attached to the record as a file attachment.

We're excited to review the work that was done this past quarter to improve your Flex Jail system and the tools you use to manage it. To upgrade your system, schedule an appointment at flex-update.appointlet.com. Customer requests for upgrades will take place as they are currently scheduled.

New Gender and Ethnicity Fields 

The inmate screen has been updated to now include fields for Gender and Ethnicity. This will improve officer insight for the inmates they are responsible for and help agencies meet certain state requirements where applicable.

Users do not need to do anything additional to use this feature. The fields have been added to the various screens where this level of inmate information is available.

Standardization of Inmate Card

Tired of looking at different screens for inmate information? Now, when the inmate card is displayed anywhere in Flex Jail, it will display the same information in a more organized view. This standardization across all screens will save time and improve officer workflow.

The new information will display like this:
First Line: Last, First, MI, Suffix, Sex, Race, DOB
Second Line: Gender, Ethnicity, Hair, Eyes, Height, Weight, Name Number
Third Line: Current Location (used to be Location), Length of time at that location (shown as read only texts such as 12Y, 3M, 2D, 1H, 6M), Housing Location, Length of time at this housing location
Fourth Line: Booking Date (used to be Current Booking), Length of time they have been booked (years/months/days/hours/minutes - eg: 12Y, 3M, 2D, 1H, 6M), Scheduled Release Date, Length of time until scheduled release (years/months/days/hours/minutes)

We're excited to review the work that was done this past quarter to improve your Flex Jail experience. For any questions, reach out to Customer Success.

Ability to Override Sex Restricitions for Housing Assingments

Housing within Flex Jail has always limited Sex to Male and Female. Jail now includes an “X” option that allows you to view all housing, rather than only male or female. This feature reduces risk to both the inmate and the jail. This enhancement also includes the ability to override the sex limitation. When a housing limitation is overridden, the user who performed the action is logged. The ability to override the sex limitation in housing is controlled by a new setting.

We're excited to review the work that was done this past quarter to improve your Flex Jail experience. For any questions, reach out to customer success.

Inmate Movement

The days of manually tracking (or not tracking) inmate movement are over. Easily record inmate movement and keep every corrections officer on the same page using location barcodes.

Using a handheld device, you can scan each inmate’s individual barcode and then scan the barcode at the destination. When the movement is complete, the information is updated in Flex Jail, allowing all users to stay up-to-date on the location of each inmate.

Amended Charge

Flex Jail allows you to keep track of the original charge the inmate was arrested on as well as the charge they plead guilty to in the event that they are different.

The offense record in Flex Jail now has additional fields to allow your agency to record the sentenced charge while leaving the arrested charge in place.

Offense ID Number

Some states require agencies to record a secondary offense ID number. Now, you can easily and accurately track secondary IDs for each offense right in Flex Jail.

The offense record has a new field to allow an additional ID to be captured. The offense IDs are filtered by the selected statute so only the offense IDs that are applicable can be selected.