How gadgets can smell signs of trouble in and out of prison
Lord Timpson, the prisons minister, said that 'surveillance is not a dirty word' as he held a Dragons' Den style event in London to hear pitches from seven security technology firms. They had progressed to the final round of an initiative to find innovative ways of monitoring criminals in and out of jail.
Their ideas will now be considered for use in prisons as part of the government's overhaul of sentencing laws that will allow most prisoners to spend just a third of their sentence behind bars, and the rest under house arrest or in the community.
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