Internet of incarceration: How AI could put an end to prisons as we know them - RN - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Dan Hunter is a prison guard's worst nightmare. But he's not a hardened crim. As dean of Swinburne University's Law School, he's working to have most wardens replaced by a system of advanced artificial intelligence connected to a network of high-tech sensors. Called the Technological Incarceration Project, the idea is to make not so much an internet of things as an internet of incarceration. Professor Hunter's team is researching an advanced form of home detention, using artificial intelligence, machine-learning algorithms and lightweight electronic sensors to monitor convicted offenders on a 24-hour basis.