Industry news, policy changes, and regulatory updates in electronic monitoring
Eight months after North Carolina’s General Assembly mandated every judicial district in the state to establish pretrial electronic monitoring capabilities, a new study from the UNC School of Government reveals…
Between September 1 and September 4, 2026, three separate GPS ankle bracelet tampering incidents across Wisconsin, Texas, and California made local headlines — and each one tells the same story…
Ghana’s parliament passed the Community Service Bill 2026 on July 24, creating a National Community Service Secretariat and authorizing courts to impose non-custodial sentences for offenses carrying up to three…
Eleven African nations just sent a clear signal: the era of purely punitive incarceration on the continent is ending. At the 2026 African Correctional Services Association (ACSA) Regional Conference in…
The UK National Audit Office dropped a 63-page report on 10 July 2026 that should worry every corrections agency in the world considering rapid electronic monitoring expansion. The verdict, delivered…
Four years after Quebec became the first Canadian province to deploy GPS ankle monitors specifically for domestic violence prevention, the numbers look impressive. The province’s anti-approach bracelet (bracelet antirapprochement, or…
On June 10, 2026, the Ohio House of Representatives voted 94-2 to approve House Bill 667—the Reagan Tokes and Patrick Heringer Act—mandating continuous real-time GPS monitoring of violent offenders released…
New Zealand Police have approved development of a trial for “Custody Biometric Life Sign Monitoring” — wall-mounted radar sensors that track a detained person’s heart rate, breathing, and movement without…
On June 8, 2026, Barbados launched what may be the most significant reform of its criminal justice system in three decades. At a high-level symposium at the Radisson Hotel in…
When Cambodia’s Director General of Prisons Chhorn Sanath and his delegation walked into the China-ASEAN Information Harbour (CAIH) headquarters in Nanning, Guangxi province, on June 3, 2026, they were not…
When federal authorities quietly removed 20 detainees from Guam’s Hagåtña Detention Facility in late 2025, it was not a routine transfer. It was a signal — the kind that precedes…
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.…