Prisons

A new four-year study using AI-enabled surveillance will track recently released prison parolees. The project’s goal is to lower rates of recidivism by identifying early interventions to help individuals transitioning from prison to regular society.

​​​Drones offer a pretty effective ways to move goods, including the smuggling of drugs, phones and other contraband into prisons. So much so, that the UK has set up a specialist police squad to track down enterprising crime groups that use the aircraft for these kinds of nefarious purposes. ​

​​It's already been documented that time spent in nature can relieve stress. However, what if you're somewhere where you can't access nature directly … somewhere such as a prison? Well, it turns out that even watching videos of nature can still make a big difference.​

Dr. Margot Krasojevic's futuristic offshore floating Hydroelectric Waterfall Prison concept would produce energy for homes on the mainland.

Gizmag looks at EXIT Architects' "rehabilitation" of a 19th century prison.

The Vertical Prison concept aims to rehabilitate prisoners by allowing them to remain a part of society and contribute to it, while using height as a wall to keep them physically separated from it.

California’s Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has agreed to test remote-controlled, 1.2-pound surveillance robots in hostile prison situations.