Telephone System. IWTS network, equipment, and services were installed and are repaired and maintained by the current IWTS contractor at no cost to the State. The IWTS network and platform is provided by the IWTS contractor. IWTS equipment includes telephones, cut-off switches, various types of telephone enclosures/pedestals/carts, live monitoring equipment with speakerphones, and IWTS Investigative Workstations. The IWTS contractor currently provides portable Telecommunications Device for the Deaf (TDD) to each CDCR facility. The IWTS equipment is located at CDCR adult and youth facilities in the Private Branch Exchange (PBX) buildings, the Remote Peripheral Exchange (RPE) buildings, Telephone Rooms/Closets, Housing Units, Observation Towers, Gyms, Offices, Control Booths, Hospitals, Firehouses and Investigator’s Offices, among other locations. The IWTS equipment at CDCR Field Offices is typically located in telephone rooms and offices. The IWTS contractor provides approximately four-thousand, nine hundred and ninety four (4,994) telephones at adult facilities and sixty-eight (68) telephones at youth facilities designed to accommodate incarcerated individual originated, non-confidential personal calls. Coinless, tamper-resistant telephones are designated exclusively for incarcerated individuals. The IWTS contract includes requirements that meet security standards and employs special computer-based security features intended to protect the public. These features include: 1) Ability for offenders to make domestic calls and international calls prepaid by the called party or collect where available to the friend and family. 2) Call monitoring and recording;
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