Jemtec Expands Saskatchewan Lease.

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 10, 1997-- JEMTEC INC.(Alberta Stock Exchange:JTC.) JEMTEC Inc. (Alberta Stock Exchange:JTC), Canada's leading provider of electronic monitoring system solutions for corrections, today announced that they have received additional orders for 40 electronic monitoring units from the Saskatchewan Department of Justice, an expansion of 35 percent.

Eric Caton, JEMTEC's President said, "that in the past 15 months JEMTEC has increased its Canadian lease base of electronic monitoring units by 84 percent. The driving force behind this rapid growth is cost-avoidance. In Saskatchewan the cost per client on electronic monitoring is less than $15.00 per diem while the institutional per diem is over $90.00. With daily savings of over $75.00 per offender, officials are using electronic monitoring in a variety of roles such as: intensive probation, conjugal visits and bail clients who would otherwise remain in custody pending trial".

JEMTEC is the largest provider of this technology in Canada with systems in Ontario, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Newfoundland and the Yukon with 100 percent market share. The company has an established record of technological innovation and reliability in the field of electronic monitoring.

The common shares of JEMTEC trade through the facilities of the Alberta Stock Exchange under the symbol "JTC". -0- The Alberta Stock Exchange has neither approved nor disapproved of the information herein.

CONTACT: Jemtec Inc.

Eric Caton, 604/929-4559

604/929-4198 (FAX)

or

Jemtec Inc. - Ontario, 905/455-5758

905/455-2529 (FAX)