GTL's Data IQ™ enables correctional facilities to consolidate offender data and flag suspicious behavior

RESTON, Virginia, March 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Global Tel*Link (GTL), the leading provider of correctional technology solutions, announces the latest release of GTL Data IQ™, version 5.8, intelligence software that interfaces with all GTL products such as the GTL inmate telephone platform, financial transactions, email visitation, offender management systems, commissary orders and more. While other applications may be limited to analyzing their own data sources, GTL Data IQ can interface with any third-party data source such as state-owned data, county-owned data, publicly available data and data from facility vendors providing investigators a holistic view of investigative data. By transforming raw data into useful connections, GTL Data IQ combats fraud and other criminal activity.

"GTL Data IQ allows investigators to access raw data from disparate data sources and turn that raw data into actionable intelligence, thus creating a community that is safer for offenders and staff," said Mitch Volkart, Product Manager for Intelligence Tools and Cell Phone Control and Forensics at GTL. "Given its role in promoting safety and security, we believe GTL Data IQ has an important place as one of the many tools facilities use in their missions to promote rehabilitation and reduce recidivism."

GTL Data IQ utilizes patented technology to empower investigators to consolidate and draw connections between offenders' phone calls, visitations, trust and phone deposits, commissary accounts and more, thus giving them the power to detect, flag and act on suspicious or criminal behavior. The software is capable of performing a full link analysis of third-party data as well as any data from GTL's intelligence products, making it the most powerful intelligence software on the market. From financial transactions from any source to visitation and other forms of communication, GTL Data IQ draws connections where humans and other, less powerful software see none.

"This technology would have been valuable beyond measure if I had had access to it when I served as the Deputy Inspector General for the Missouri Department of Corrections," added Volkart. "Given its ability to assess GTL and third-party data to generate actionable intelligence, GTL Data IQ is the tool investigators need to help maintain safety and security within a correctional environment, all while saving manpower and therefore cost."

Rather than relying on the extremely difficult and time-intensive task of assembling and assessing large amounts of seemingly unrelated data by hand, GTL Data IQ uses advanced data mining technologies and a simple user interface to visually analyze a large and complex data set and help find offender-based fraud schemes and expose suspicious patterns or larger Security Threat Group (STG) networks, and generally provide a detailed view of the communications and interactions between offenders and others.

GTL Data IQ is one of five tools in the IQ family of intelligence products. Together, these products form the most holistic approach to intelligence gathering in the correctional industry, offering investigators a broad range of options for gathering pertinent, actionable intelligence. For more information about this powerful advanced investigative tool, contact a GTL representative today by emailing dataiq@gtl.net, or visiting www.gtl.net/dataiqpr.

About Global Tel*Link

GTL is the leading provider of integrated correctional technology solutions, delivering financial value, security, and ease of operation to our customers through visionary products and solutions at the forefront of corrections innovation. As a trusted correctional industry leader, GTL provides service to approximately fifty percent of inmates nationwide, including service to 32 state departments of corrections, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and 32 of the largest city/county facilities. GTL is headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with more than 10 regional offices across the country. To find out more about GTL, please visit our website www.gtl.net.