Advancing Corrections Journal - Edition #11 - Envisioning Corrections in 2030 - Where Should the Evidence Take Us (ACJ11-A008)

Article 8: Rehab City-Reinventing the Architecture of Incarceration (ACJ11-A008)

Authors

Mrs. Pia Puolakka

Project Manager / Senior Specialist, Criminal Sanctions Agency

Ms Pia Puolakka has been working for the Criminal Sanctions Agency since 2012. She started as a prison psychologist. Since 2017, she has been working in the Central Administration, where she first worked as a senior specialist responsible for rehabilitative services including programme work, family work, and psychological and spiritual services in prisons. In 2018, she was appointed as the project manager of the Smart Prison Project. Her current post includes developing digital services for rehabilitative purposes and leading the implementation of the smart prison system. In 2020, she started as the project manager of the RISE AI Project that aims to develop an application that is based on artificial intelligence (AI) for client work and counselling in the Criminal Sanctions Agency. By education she is a forensic psychologist and works also as a private psychotherapist. She has done further studies in artificial intelligence and digitalisation for the purposes of the current Smart Prison and AI projects. She is especially interested in how digitalisation can support the well-being and abilities of people. She is also a board member of the EuroPris ICT Expert Group.

Mr Steven Van De Steene

Corrections Technology Consultant, Smart Corrections

Steven Van De Steene is an Enterprise Architect and Technology for Corrections Expert. He works as a consultant in the area of innovation and technology strategy for prisons and probation services. He is a member of ICPA Board of Directors and is the board liaison of the Technology Solutions Group. Prior to this current position he was the IT Director of the Penitentiary Institutions in Belgium and chair of the Technology Expert Group within Europris. Steven is an affiliate researcher at the Montfort University (UK) where he focusses on research in the area of digital transformation in corrections.

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