Industry news, policy changes, and regulatory updates in electronic monitoring
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
When the Royal Oman Police published Tender No. ROP/1/387/6/18/2026 earlier this year, it did not attract the kind of attention that a procurement of this scale deserves. The document —…
While the United States and Western Europe debate the merits and limitations of commercial GPS ankle monitors from established vendors, a Central Asian nation with a population smaller than New…
On May 8, 2026, Germany’s Bundestag passed a law that gives family courts the power to strap electronic ankle bracelets on domestic violence offenders. Three days later and 4,500 kilometers…
Bangladesh stuffs 77,000 people into prisons built for 43,000. That’s 180% occupancy — one of the highest overcrowding rates in the world. Dhaka Central Jail alone confines 8,536 inmates. Over…
President Samia Suluhu Hassan didn’t just talk about prison reform at the Tanzania Correctional Training Academy on May 9, 2026. She issued a direct order: build an ICT-based monitoring system…
Sweden announced on May 8, 2026 that it plans to equip children as young as 13 with electronic monitoring bracelets — not because they have committed crimes, but because they…