Resources

Evidence, registers and honest writing about prison technology

Material we use in requirements workshops, procurement reviews and practitioner training — including the parts that argue against deploying software.

Articles

Perspectives from the practice

Every article is published in English, Russian, Uzbek, Arabic and Indonesian — switch language in the header and these links follow. Each piece carries its own charts, flow diagrams and cited statistics.

Traceability registers

Screen, API and KPI IDs make requirements testable

Use these in Q&A, procurement, requirements review and solution-architecture workshops. IDs stay stable across wording, language and visual redesign.

Screen register

Format MMM-00-T — module, sequence, surface type (S stand-alone, T tab, P pop-in, M staff mobile, K kiosk, E external portal). 274 governed screens; 61 flagship screens documented.

Browse screens

API register

Format API-MMM-NNN. Every write idempotent, authorised, auditable and traceable to a screen and workflow. Requests carry tenant, purpose, actor, source and idempotency key; responses carry version, warnings and a decision trace.

OpenAPI · AsyncAPI · FHIR

KPI register

Minimum metadata per measure: owner, purpose, formula, source, exclusions, time zone, freshness, uncertainty, subgroup policy, threshold, action and review date.

A number without method misleads more efficiently
KPIMeasureDefinition & action owner
KPI-LAW-01Potential over-detentionAuthority or rule exception · immediate legal review
KPI-SAF-04Overdue welfare contactsDue contacts by exposure time · unit commander
KPI-HLT-03Medication omissionScheduled doses by reason · clinical owner
KPI-HUM-02Purposeful activityEligible person-hours, not raw attendance
KPI-REH-05Programme dosageDelivered hours / prescribed hours + fidelity
KPI-RLS-02Closed-loop referralAccepted service, not referral sent
KPI-WFM-03Quick returnConfigured rest-window breach + mitigation
KPI-OHW-04Psychosocial hazardProtected aggregate + action effectiveness
KPI-EQT-02Access disparityExposure-adjusted group comparison + uncertainty
KPI-SYS-06Offline reconciliationSigned events acknowledged / conflicts unresolved
Request a pack

For procurement, security and clinical review

Platform overview pack

Domain-by-domain capability map, screen register extract, configuration profiles by facility type, and the delivery phase plan with gate criteria.

Request

Security & DPIA pack

Architecture and data-flow diagrams, zone model, access-policy catalogue, retention schedule, encryption profile, AI registry extract and downtime-drill reports.

Request

Clinical governance pack

Clinical-zone separation model, eMAR controls, instrument library with licences and norming status, consent and translation validation, equivalence-of-care measures.

Request

Masterclass: technology in prisons

A 60-minute practitioner session on scope and limitations — six systems, the hotel analogy and its limits, AI lanes, a resilience tabletop and the five deployment tests.

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External evidence we rely on

Sources, not claims

World Prison Brief

Population, pre-trial share and occupancy figures used in our context material. Latest country values available on the source page.

RAND correctional-education meta-analysis

Association between education participation and lower odds of recidivism — a population result, not an individual prediction.

NIJ & occupational-health literature

Correctional-officer PTSD, burnout and organisational-hazard research underpinning our workforce-safety model.

Structured risk-assessment research

Validity studies on LS/CMI, HCR-20, PCL-R and protective-factor tools, including their limits in non-Western norming contexts.

ICJS & e-Prisons programme documents

Integration expectations across police, courts, prisons, prosecution and forensics under India's interoperable criminal justice programme.

Model Prisons Act & Bangkok Rules

Reformation, rehabilitation, after-care and women-specific provisions reflected in our configuration profiles.

We cite sources rather than paraphrase them into claims. Where evidence is thin — for example Indian norming of imported psychometric instruments — the product says so on screen.