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The primary goal of the Correctional Officer Distress Alarm (CODA) project is to increase the safety of correctional officers. Our objective is to demonstrate the ability of a CODA system to dispatch help to the precise location of a correctional officer in distress. A successful system will mean enhanced security and safety for correctional officers, as well as reductions in "burnout" and turnover. A tracking server will show the location of all tagged officers. Additionally, a protected database of interactions, events, and tracking history will reside on a server that can be accessed by administrators. Some of the features of the CODA product include: 1. Call for Assistance: An officer can call for assistance by a push of a button. This information is sent to the central server which relays the call to dispatch. The server continues to send notifications until an officer responds to the call. Additionally a record of each call is retained along with the time of the initial call and the elapsed time between the call and the recorded response. 2. Assault Alert: The officer tag will detect a fall or assault automatically. An alert will be relayed, so help can be dispatched to the officer’s precise location. The officer is not required to take any action. 3. Staff Accountability: Tracking of staff movements, responses, interactions with inmates, and rounds will assist with staffing ratios, training, workflow optimization, and provide liability protection at an unprecedented level in the corrections industry. Our team has successfully met the two specific aims of the Phase I project. The first, was to design and prototype a CODA system. In support of this aim, we have worked with the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, correctional officers, prison administrators, and a professional criminologist to distill requirements for CODA. We have produced a correctional officer tracking tag with a demonstrated assault detector and supporting client-server software capable of being scaled for larger deployments. Our team tested this prototype CODA system in a representative prison environment verifying performance in terms of accuracy, latency, and range.