Bangladesh, Kenya, UK opt for biometrics to tackle crime in prisons
Governments are increasingly opting for biometrics and other smart technologies as a way of ramping up security around prisons and…
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Nigeria counts on biometrics to recapture nearly 4K fleeing jail-breakers
Nigeria’s Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has said his ministry is working in collaboration with the Nigerian Identity Management Commission…
Biometrics in the big house: Surveillance and new revenue
A pair of recent patents and a patent application paint a grim(mer) future for prison inmates and guards. The innovations…
Biometrics, drones and robotic guards: Inside Hong Kong’s first ‘smart prison’
Tai Tam Gap Correctional Institution in Shek O, Hong Kong, is to become the city’s first smart prison in 2021,…
Biometric tracking for parolees and prisoners grows, Supercom and Tyler Tech win contracts
Supercom has won a contract to deploy its biometric offender tracking PureTrack GPS platform for an agency in Wisconsin following a…
Biometric app proposed for Chilean inmates on home release, monitoring deployed to Australia prison
An app leveraging face and voice biometrics and geolocation is being proposed by Chilean technology company GeoVictoria to enable Columbia to…
Bangladesh biometric prisoner database to enhance prison management
Bangladesh has developed a biometric-enabled prisoner database management system in partnership with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime…
Biometrics and AI vision technologies deployed in Hong Kong and UK prisons to prevent drug use
Hong Kong is testing AI vision and prisoner-tracking technologies and the UK has completed a trial of iris and facial…
Singapore prison testing biometrics and video analysis for inmate management
The Singapore Prison Service (SPS) is exploring the use of video analytics, including facial recognition and sentiment analysis, to improve…
Gradiant and Encartele partner on biometric tech solution for corrections industry
Gradiant, a Spanish technology R&D center, and Encartele announced they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to work together in…
