Coverage of artificial intelligence applications in criminal justice, including AI-powered electronic monitoring, predictive analytics in community supervision, risk assessment algorithms, and the intersection of AI technology with offender monitoring and rehabilitation programs.
By Marcus J. Calloway, Editor-in-Chief In online forums where people under electronic supervision gather to share advice, the complaints are remarkably consistent. “I can’t play basketball anymore — the thing…
This comprehensive ankle monitor comparison chart provides a side-by-side technical analysis of every major GPS ankle monitor on the market. Covering weight, battery life, connectivity, tamper detection, positioning accuracy, and…
This curated research library indexes the most important academic studies, government reports, and policy analyses on electronic monitoring, GPS ankle monitors, and community corrections. Every entry includes a summary of…
Electronic monitoring laws vary dramatically across the United States. This directory provides a state-by-state overview of GPS ankle monitor legislation, covering who can be monitored, under what circumstances, which agencies…
This comprehensive directory profiles every major electronic monitoring vendor serving U.S. corrections, pretrial, parole, probation, and community supervision programs. Whether you are an agency evaluating GPS ankle monitor manufacturers for…
Editor’s note: This analysis is written for electronic monitoring programme managers, state corrections officials, and community supervision policy staff. It draws on April 2026 reporting from The Lantern (Ohio State…
In January 2025, BI Incorporated quietly expanded the deployment of its VeriWatch GPS wristband within ICE’s Alternatives to Detention (ATD) program. The device — a smartwatch-like GPS unit designed for…
ICE’s VeriWatch rollout, county pilots, and UK “non-fitted” GPS watches are converging on one uncomfortable truth for buyers: wrist placement is being marketed and operated as a lower-obtrusion compliance layer—not as a drop-in replacement for ankle GPS on high-risk cohorts. This analysis maps the evidence, quotes ICE and critics, and offers procurement guardrails.
The global electronic monitoring market is experiencing a quiet crisis that few industry observers have fully articulated: in markets outside the United States, a wave of low-cost wrist-worn devices —…
SuperCom secures a nationwide Sweden electronic monitoring contract worth about $17M over nine years after a five-bid competition—what it signals for EM markets.
Procurement teams no longer grade ankle monitor vendors on strap colors alone. This independent comparison framework scores legacy LTE-only architectures against emerging multi-mode designs across seven dimensions—architecture, battery economics, wearability, tamper integrity, installation throughput, cellular roadmap, and platform TCO—with explicit vendor-claim labeling and alphabetical disclosure order.
Executive summary: For electronic monitoring (EM) programs, GPS ankle monitor false alarms are not a technical footnote—they are an operational, financial, and legal liability. This independent industry analysis explains why…