The Kankakee County sheriff wants fingerprint scanning technology added to his jail's security systems following an April 1 inmate escape.
The new system would require jail employees to swipe a keycard and scan their fingerprints.
Sheriff Tim Bukowski spoke of the need for the equipment in a meeting Tuesday of the county board's finance committee, which voted in favor of the $69,000 purchase.
Twenty-three-year-old Kamron T. Taylor escaped from the Jerome Combs Detention Center after waiting outside his cell and attacking a guard making rounds.
Wearing the guard's uniform, Taylor fooled officers in a master control room into buzzing him through security doors before driving off in the guard's SUV. He was captured three days later.
