jailtracker.py

"""
http://jailtracker.net/current-facilities
hosts many jail databases across the country

One example, is
http://caseycountyjail.com/CaseyCoJail_inmatelist.html

There are a few steps to crawl the data.
1. Load the internal iframe, e.g.
   https://jailtracker.com/jtclientweb/jailtracker/index/casey_county_ky
2. Find your 'session' key identifier which will track your requests.
   Note: this is probably meant to stop people from crawling the database
   so efforts to keep this updated.  It will be a 24-character hash, e.g.
   "5rgozlwf20ii1b255fvz3hu4"
3. Make a POST request to:
   https://jailtracker.com/JTClientWeb/(S(5rgozlwf20ii1b255fvz3hu4))/JailTracker/GetInmateList
   with `start=0&limit=100`
   This will return the first 100 inmates, you can also add parameters:
   `sort=LastName&dir=ASC` e.g. to sort on a column
   with columns: 
      ArrestNo: Seems to be the main unique identifier in jailtracker
      FirstName, MiddleName, LastName, Suffix, 
      FinalReleaseDateTime
      Facility
      Jacket: generally a string of numbers, presumably identifying the inmate for the facility
      OriginalBookDateTime

   *  For a particular inmate you can do a POST to e.g. 
      https://jailtracker.com/JTClientWeb/(S(5rgozlwf20ii1b255fvz3hu4))/JailTracker/GetCases
      with `arrestNo=` parameter matching the inmate
      returning a payload like:
       {"data":[{"CaseId":24601,
                 "CaseNo":"88*CR*19",
                 "Status":"Sentenced","BondType":"SENTENCED","BondAmount":0.00,"FineAmount":0.00,"Sentence":"0y 0m 0d","CourtTime":null}],"totalCount":1,"error":"","success":"true"}
   * You can also get an image of the inmate with
     https://jailtracker.com/JTClientWeb/(S(5rgozlwf20ii1b255fvz3hu4))/JailTracker/GetImage/
     with `arrestNo=`
"""