On March 4, 2026, a 28-year-old woman was stabbed to death by her ex-boyfriend at an outlet mall near Ikebukuro’s Sunshine City in Tokyo. She had obtained a restraining order.…
The Brennan Center for Justice just released a report that corrections professionals have been waiting years for — hard data showing that rehabilitation-focused prison programs significantly reduce both in-facility violence…
Nearly 28,000 convicted murderers, rapists, and armed robbers released on parole in South Africa have simply vanished — and the government cannot find them. An amaBhungane investigation published on May…
A Corrections1 column last week made a familiar argument: prisons are overwhelmed, incident reports are still written by hand, and AI can fix everything. The piece — authored by a…
For decades, the corrections reentry system in the United States has operated on an unspoken assumption: that a person leaving prison needs supervision first and services second. Probation and parole…
On May 21, 2026, representatives from Moldova’s National Probation Inspectorate gathered in Chișinău to evaluate a program that most Western criminal justice professionals don’t know exists. Over the preceding 15…
Comprehensive analysis of AI-powered prison camera systems in 2026: automated inmate counts, behavioral detection, edge AI, real deployments from Georgia to Cook County, and the critical governance gap between technology capability and oversight frameworks.
When Portugal’s Directorate-General for Reintegration and Prison Services (DGRSP) published its latest statistical report on electronic monitoring this week, one number dominated the headlines: 222.61%. That is how much ankle-bracelet…
Between 2019 and 2023, nearly 4,000 people died in American jails — not prisons where inmates serve long sentences, but jails where many are simply awaiting trial (The Marshall Project,…
When four inmates died within a single week at Nevada’s High Desert State Prison in February 2026, the question wasn’t whether the facility knew they were there — it was…
In Chatrie v. United States, currently before the Supreme Court, the petitioner’s attorneys made a striking analogy: geofence warrants have turned the smartphones in Americans’ pockets into “ankle monitors” for…
Two headlines from the same week tell the story of American correctional healthcare in 2026. In Kansas, the Department of Corrections signed an $88.9 million contract with VitalCore Health Strategies…