Workshop Session
A novel effort has been undertaken in Canada to implement an AI-based system for the real-time monitoring of behavioral and health conditions of inmates. The system has, for the first time, been deployed in a real environment and is being assessed for early detection of anomalous health and self-harm events. However, above and beyond this, the technology also offers opportunity for the long-term behavioral assessment and trending analysis that can provide quantitative measures to decision-makers. In this presentation, early results of the deployed system and user feedback are presented to gauge this technology's value proposition in a correctional context. A special focus is also given to the special legal and ethical challenges, such as privacy, inherent in the adoption of advanced data-gathering technologies.