NITRO - National Inmate Telephone Research Operations
A meta-database of all prison inmate telephone calls in America with investigator access to help correlate, track, identify and repress criminal

There are approximately 5,000 prisons in the U.S., housing over 2,000,000 inmates that make over 500,000,000 telephone calls a year. Investigations of criminal and/or terrorist call activities from these prisons have to be conducted one prison system at a time because there is no connectivity or sharing of information between these sites. A centralized meta-database solution will be developed that gathers daily telephone call record information from these prisons, which will be used as a centralized research platform. This platform will aid investigators from any governmental agency to: A. Correlate inmate calls with electronic surveillance data or target numbers to determine which criminal inmates are communicating with the targets or their contacts; B. Detect unusual calling patterns of certain inmates and/or gangs within and between prisons; C. Track various incidents between prisons or target numbers; D. Gain quick access to recorded inmate conversations that can also be accessed by foreign language translators or emailed to them; E. Repress call activities by alerting prison personnel to block certain numbers or inmates from making calls; and/or, F. Set up sting operations to observe inmate responses.