TECHNOLOGY IN CORRECTIONS - CALL FOR PAPERS
We invite technology solution experts to submit proposals for presentation relating to the main themes shown below.
Prison administrations and probation services are currently facing a number of challenges. On one hand the emphasis is on professionalization, efficiency with more individualized and client-centric approaches towards the offender, and a strong focus on preparing re-entry into society. On the other hand, special attention has to be given to the importance of guaranteeing public security and finding the right balance and responses to new evolutions in society such as radicalization. Doing all this within the restraints of a difficult economic and budgetary context constitutes a difficult challenge.
As in all sectors, we believe that technology can help us with these challenges. Even more, we believe that innovation is a necessity if we want to find sustainable solutions to our problems.
The aim of this conference is to challenge private sector technological companies and experts, to help us, the Prison and Probation Services, in finding solutions for our operational problems. The private sector companies are invited to present proposals on how they think technology can help us in our specific setting of corrections both inside and outside the prison walls.
Challenges
During this conference we want to focus on challenges within three major themes:
1) Collaboration, knowledge and information management within the whole lifecycle of offender management
- How can technology help us better collaborate within and outside our organizations?
- How can we use and centralize all information about the offender in a flexible and secure way?
- How can we share this information with all possible partners and stakeholders within our field of corrections?
- How can we use and access this information on an operational level: field workers, mobile workers, during transport, probation officers on the field?
- How can we gain intelligence from these systems to use for better knowledge and decision making both on an operational as a strategic level?
2) Improve operational and security processes and the way we are working inside and outside prisons?
- How can we enhance control and security in and outside our facilities, give staff more time to work with the offenders and give offenders more liberty in taking their lives into their own hands?
- How can we use technology to improve real time communication (text – voice – video) between staff, office workers and field workers, internal and external?
- How can we control and actually use IT networks rather than spending a huge amount of money on blocking everything out?
- How can we integrate different technologies such as camera, CCTV, Dect telephone, walkie talkies, electronic locks, control systems, perimeter detection, localisation technology, etc. and to improve their use?
- What does the Internet of Things mean for prisons & probation?
3) Collaboration and participation of the offender himself during this whole lifecycle.
- How can technology help improve reintegration and reduce recidivism?
- How can technology help inmates in doing things themselves and making their own decisions?
- How can we give access to the digital world without loss of security and control?
- How can we use geo-localization and biometric technology to give offenders more possibilities to move freely inside and outside prisons?
- How can we use technology to improve contact and communication inside and outside prisons (text – voice – video)?
Submissions must be made in English.
Deadline for submissions: 10 March 2015
Questions concerning the Call for Papers can be directed to correctionstech2015@europris.org.
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