{"id":19323,"date":"2025-07-01T09:37:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T07:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/01\/tech-firms-suggested-placing-trackers-under-offenders-skin-at-meeting-with-justice-secretary\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T09:37:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T07:37:16","slug":"tech-firms-suggested-placing-trackers-under-offenders-skin-at-meeting-with-justice-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/01\/tech-firms-suggested-placing-trackers-under-offenders-skin-at-meeting-with-justice-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech firms suggested placing trackers under offenders\u2019 skin at meeting with justice secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Shabana Mahmood told companies she wanted \u2018deeper collaboration\u2019 to tackle prisons crisis<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jul\/01\/whitehall-ambition-to-cut-costs-using-ai-is-fraught-with-risk\">Analysis: Whitehall\u2019s ambition to cut costs using AI is fraught with risk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tracking devices inserted under offenders\u2019 skin, robots assigned to contain prisoners and driverless vehicles used to transport them were among the measures proposed by technology companies to ministers who are gathering ideas to tackle the crisis in the UK justice system.<\/p>\n<p>The proposals were made at a meeting of more than two dozen tech companies in London last month, chaired by the justice secretary, Shabana Mahmood, minutes seen by the Guardian show. Amid an acute shortage of prison places and probation officers under severe strain, ministers told the companies they wanted ideas for using wearable technologies, behaviour monitoring and geolocation to create a \u201cprison outside of prison\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2025\/jul\/01\/tech-firms-suggested-placing-trackers-under-offenders-skin-at-meeting-with-justice-secretary\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/36b64fbfddf5d0769a50bfbfe1770106d35fe2c7\/271_0_2134_1707\/master\/2134.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=f87fd4eed38d19724b60355b3b94dcca\" title=\"Tech firms suggested placing trackers under offenders\u2019 skin at meeting with justice secretary\" \/>Exclusive: Shabana Mahmood told companies she wanted \u2018deeper collaboration\u2019 to tackle prisons crisis<br \/>\nAnalysis: Whitehall\u2019s ambition to cut costs using AI is fraught with risk<br \/>\nTracking devices inserted under offenders\u2019 skin, robots assigned to contain prisoners and driverless vehicles used to transport them were among the measures proposed by technology companies to ministers who are gathering ideas to tackle the crisis in the UK justice system.<br \/>\nThe proposals were made at a meeting of more than two dozen tech companies in London last month, chaired by the justice secretary, Shabana Mahmood, minutes seen by the Guardian show. Amid an acute shortage of prison places and probation officers under severe strain, ministers told the companies they wanted ideas for using wearable technologies, behaviour monitoring and geolocation to create a \u201cprison outside of prison\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Shabana Mahmood told companies she wanted \u2018deeper collaboration\u2019 to tackle prisons crisis Analysis: Whitehall\u2019s ambition to cut costs using AI is fraught with risk Tracking devices inserted under offenders\u2019 skin, robots assigned to contain prisoners and driverless vehicles used to transport them were among the measures proposed by technology companies to ministers who are &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/01\/tech-firms-suggested-placing-trackers-under-offenders-skin-at-meeting-with-justice-secretary\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tech firms suggested placing trackers under offenders\u2019 skin at meeting with justice secretary<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19323"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}