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Technology in Corrections: Challenges & Strategy

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“A meaningful detention experience from day one”: Belgium’s alternative to traditional prisons

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New experimental lab of penitentiary forensics in Italy

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Corrections and Digital Technology: An introduction to data analytics and predictive capabilities

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Latin America and the Caribbean: Fostering development through finding solutions to crime and violence

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Collaborating across boundaries: unifying the correctional community in innovating technology solutions

The one constant of technology is that it is always evolving. While this constant evolution has the potential to enable... Read More

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Explore the challenges and opportunities of modernisation though the lens of international stakeholders in the penitentiary sector. Read More
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A win-win for contraband detection

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Public safety through penitentiary reform and gang control

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Preparing persons in custody for a life without crime

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Operational transformation is necessary in the post-pandemic corrections agencies. "Selecting the right expert digital partners, is the key to overcoming challenges" - Core Systems. Read More

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X-Ray scanning in prisons: ensuring safety and effectiveness

With drugs entering our prison systems on a regular basis, we need to address the “elephant in the room” that... Read More

Digitalisation in Corrections – The Singapore Experience

Singapore Prison Service's strategy leverages technology for smarter rehabilitation and reintegration of inmates. Read More

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In this article by ViaPath Technologies, discover how Intelligence-Led Corrections (ILC) strategies combat contraband cell phones in prisons through detection, extraction, and analysis. Read More
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Elevating prison service based on an evolutionary and responsive strategy

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Israeli Corrections in transition: More prisons but also more alternatives

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Integration of Digital Thinking in Corrections

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Preparing for life beyond bars: Rwanda’s focus on skills and reintegration

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Challenges and opportunities for a prison system with more than 200,000 inmates

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Singapore Prison Service towards total digitisation

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By Russel Webster Substance misuse treatment providers embrace digital for a better user experience. The digital revolution is here…almost The... Read More

The role of technology in correctional transformation

The Cart Before the Horse: this would be an apt analogy for some organisations’ approach to digital transformation. We too... Read More
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Modernisation of the penitentiary systems in Latin America and the Caribbean: the role of the Inter-American Development Bank

If, as Dostoyevsky said, the degree of civilization of a society can be judged by entering its prisons, we could... Read More
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Correctional reform in France: more prison places, less incarcerations

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Human dignity and privacy: Ensuring compliance with the Nelson Mandela Rules during body searches

Nelson Mandela once said, “No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not... Read More
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Ethical and moral reflections on the digital prison

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Explore how Unilink's AIM application is transforming prison environments by detecting mental health risks, particularly suicide and self-harm, through data analysis. Read More

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