
And what about rehabilitation? Wouldn’t that be a SMART idea?
I have the impression that the number of published articles and opinions on the use of technology in prisons is increasing. Not surprisingly a majority of those are addressing technologies such as Data Analytics or Artificial Intelligence, supported by specific technologies that embody a security and control function such as all kind of monitoring sensors or tracking devices. However, opinions on the value of using those ‘SMART’ technologies are very different: from a “full-