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 […]
Between August 2024 and May 2026, three separate murder suspects in Texas removed their court-ordered GPS ankle monitors and disappeared. One fled the country. One hid under his grandmother’s floorboards for a month. One killed someone else during the 103 days he spent as a fugitive. These are not edge cases. They represent a systemic […]
Two events this week crystallized the central tension defining criminal justice technology in 2026. Cook County’s Board of Commissioners is weighing a $1.12 million contract with BriefCam — a Canon-owned AI video analytics platform — to deploy automated surveillance at one of America’s largest jails. Simultaneously, RAND released its AI Taxonomy for Criminal Justice for […]
Madhya Pradesh just demonstrated what India’s Supreme Court has been arguing since its landmark Satender Kumar Antil v. CBI ruling in 2022: bail should be the rule, not the exception. Between December 2023 and December 2025, the state’s prison population dropped from 45,543 to 43,211 — a net reduction of 2,332 inmates — after India […]
On April 30, 2026, China’s National People’s Congress Standing Committee voted to adopt a comprehensive revision of the Prison Law — the first major overhaul since the original statute was enacted in 1994. Scheduled to take effect on November 1, 2026, this landmark legislation expands from 78 articles in seven chapters to 121 articles across […]
Three passengers dead. 147 people confined to cabins for over a week. A ship stranded 600 nautical miles from the nearest port with no way to verify who was actually staying in isolation. The MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak of May 2026 isn’t just a public health crisis — it’s a case study in what happens […]