Fuqing City Bureau of Justice in Fujian Province, China, has renewed its partnership with REFINE Technology to continue deploying CO-EYE GPS ankle monitors for community corrections supervision. The renewal — covering the city’s entire caseload of offenders serving community sentences — marks a multi-year commitment to electronic monitoring as a cornerstone of Fuqing’s public safety […]
When Justice Minister Sean Fraser declared that the goal of Canada’s new bail reform law is “to prevent crime from happening that demands incarceration” — not simply to lock up more people — he articulated a principle that corrections professionals across North America have been arguing for decades. The question has always been: how do […]
After six years managing the CO-EYE product line and personally overseeing deployments in 30+ countries, I’ve reviewed hundreds of agency RFP evaluation reports. The pattern is unmistakable: ankle monitor failures in the field are overwhelmingly architectural, not manufacturing defects. Agencies replace devices thinking they got a “bad batch,” only to encounter identical problems with the […]
On June 10, 2026, South Korea’s National Police Agency and Ministry of Justice announced a ₩4.203 billion ($3 million) project to merge their electronic monitoring systems into a single, real-time integrated platform — scheduled for completion by December 2026. The announcement came three months after a 44-year-old man wearing a GPS ankle monitor murdered his […]
REFINE Technology has completed the deployment of its CO-EYE electronic monitoring system at the Huaishang District Community Corrections Center in Bengbu, Anhui Province, China — extending the company’s domestic EM infrastructure to cover all enrollees under community corrections supervision in the district. The deployment was officially inaugurated at a formal ceremony hosted by the Huaishang […]
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 […]