How AI Is Transforming Prisons and Jails describes how AI has been changing corrections. As the book describes, some examples of its use include for surveillance and security through monitoring systems, for facial recognition, for risk assessment in the prison or for reoffending, for making assessments for release, for contraband detection, for drone detection, for administrative tasks, for prisoner rehabilitation, and for healthcare.

To this end, the chapters in the book cover these topics:

• Some common uses of AI in prisons.
• Using AI to monitor conversations between prisoners and outside callers.
• Examples of using AI to listen to phone conversations.
• Making smarter parole evaluations.
• Making decisions on prison and jail management.
• Investigating prisoner networks.
• An example of a Smart Prison in Finland.