On a weekday morning in May 2025, representatives from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, IBM, Palantir, and Serco filed into a TechUK conference room in London to hear a question from Britain’s Prisons Minister, Lord James Timpson: “What could a digital, data and technology-enabled justice system look like by 2050?” Among the responses — revealed only now […]
Governor Kevin Stitt signed Senate Bill 1618 into law last week, mandating that all 77 Oklahoma counties adopt validated pretrial risk assessment tools before setting bail. The legislation—officially named the Public Protection Act—takes effect November 1, 2026. On the surface, it reads like procedural reform. Beneath it lies one of the most important questions in […]
A probation officer in Oklahoma opens her dashboard. Three scheduled biometric check-ins came through overnight — each showing a clear selfie of the defendant, matching enrollment photos, passing the liveness detection prompt. Location data shows the phone at the defendant’s registered address. Everything looks clean. But the defendant hasn’t been at that address in 72 […]
On May 28, 2026, the Indianapolis Star published an investigation that should force every electronic monitoring stakeholder to confront an uncomfortable truth: a GPS ankle monitor — a device designed to track location — led to the amputation of an asylum seeker’s leg in Indiana. The bracelet gripped his left ankle so tightly that it […]
On June 24, 2026, South Korea will launch a system that no other country has attempted at national scale: giving stalking victims direct, real-time access to the GPS location of their offenders on a smartphone map. The Ministry of Justice demonstrated a working prototype on May 27 at the Central Location Tracking Control Center in […]
When Trinidad and Tobago’s Justice Minister Devesh Maharaj read the numbers behind the proposed Parole Bill 2026 in Parliament, one figure stopped the room: a recidivism rate averaging 55% between 2022 and 2026, peaking at 58%. Nearly two-thirds of the incarcerated population sitting on remand — not convicted, not sentenced, just waiting. A prison system […]
On May 21, 2026, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed House Bill 277 into law — and buried inside its 30 pages of penalty enhancements and protective-order reforms is a provision that should have every electronic monitoring equipment vendor, corrections agency, and victim advocate paying attention: America’s first dedicated GPS ankle monitor pilot program for domestic […]
REFINE Technology is proud to announce the successful deployment of CO-EYE electronic monitoring devices at the Mawei District Bureau of Justice in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, China. The deployment supports Mawei District’s implementation of tiered classification management (分级分类管理) for community corrections subjects — a national policy mandate from China’s Ministry of Justice designed to match supervision […]
In January 2026, Spain’s Ministry of Equality made one of the most significant admissions in European electronic monitoring history (EFE, January 2026): their wrist-worn monitoring system for domestic violence offenders had failed. The ministry announced a complete replacement—switching from wristbands to ankle monitors—backed by a new €111 million contract. This decision came after 18 months […]
“It’s not being taken seriously until somebody’s life is lost.” Eight years after her sister was killed by an intimate partner in Calgary, a woman’s plea to CBC News cuts through every policy debate about domestic violence prevention. Her grief frames a question that corrections agencies across North America increasingly answer with technology: can GPS […]