Prison Safety and Reform: Restoring Stability, Transforming Lives

1. Prison Safety and Reform 27th June 2017
Matt Spencer, 3M Electronic Monitoring
Electronic Monitoring; Just for Home
Detention Curfew?

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Global Suppliers of Electronic Monitoring Solutions
Europe – Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia,
Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany,
Israel, Italy, Luxemburg, Macedonia,
Netherlands, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain,
Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, UK pilots,
Ukraine
Americas – Argentina, Colombia, Curacao,
Netherlands Antilles, Mexico, Uruguay,
USA
APAC – Australia, New Zealand
MEA – South Africa
•Over 20 years of collaboration with the global justice
community
•Some 40 administrations served internationally
• Over 200,000 individuals monitored every year

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What do we mean by Electronic Monitoring of Offenders?
Use of a wearable device, coupled with a remote monitoring capability to provide a
means to enforce defined behavioural restrictions on a subject who has been given a
non-custodial sentence, pre-trial condition or behaviour order.
Key characteristics of the hardware and systems
• Must provide sufficient evidential integrity to support prosecution (secure, auditable)
• Must be robust enough to remain attached and functional through constant use without being overly
restrictive
• Must have a means to resist, detect and report attempts to remove or subvert the device or systems
functions
• Used where compliance by the subject can be reasonably expected
• Used where the Authority can provide appropriate monitoring and reactivity
Typically:

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EM Equipment
Home Detention Curfew (RF)
Must be at a fixed location between certain times
Location Based Monitoring (GPS)
Must be inside or outside fixed geographical
areas at certain points in time
Alcohol/Substance Monitoring
– Requires abstinence
Paired Proximity-Used to provide a
mobile exclusion zone around a victim
and to enforce non-contact orders

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EM picture in the UK
Circa 14,500 Units on Legs
4%
GPS
96%
RF
1%
Alcohol
UK EM Segment Size by Product
GPS RF Alcohol

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Product Categories Market Share
GPS
49%
RF
27%
Alcohol
24%
Global EM Segment Size by Product
GPS
39%
RF
25%
Alcohol
36%
US EM Segment Size by Product
GPS - One & Two Piece Home Curfew RF Alcohol Monitoring
GPS
37%
RF
63%
Alcohol
0%
OUS EM Segment Size by Product

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How is EM used Globally?
According to “Reform” it costs £8-£16 per
day for monitoring a person on a tag vs
£73.00 per day for a prison place

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Changing face of tagging in the UK
32 Forces engaged in electronic monitoring programmes in the last two years:
• Priority and Prolific Offenders
• Integrated Offender Management Programmes
• Report good compliance on the programmes and return on investment
through more efficient policing and
• Alcohol Monitoring Programmes (Metropolitan Police, Hertfordshire, Lincolnshire)
• Domestic Violence Paired Proximity Programmes (Cheshire, Northumbria, Herts)
Police Volunteer/Pilot Tagging Initiatives
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Ministry of Justice GPS Pilot
• Eighteen-month pilot concludes March 2018
• Eight police force areas - Northamptonshire Cambridgeshire Hertfordshire Leicestershire Nottinghamshire
Staffordshire West Midlands
• Home Detention Curfew cases, Variation of licence conditions, Re-release following a recall, Parole of
Indeterminate Public Protection (IPP) and lifer cases, Court bail, Community sentences ,Suspended
sentences, Parole
• Aims of the Pilot
• Impact on the behaviour of offenders released from prison on licence, suspects on bail and offenders
sentenced by the Courts
• How Decision Makers respond when given the option of imposing a location monitoring requirement as
part of a Court Order or condition as part of a prison licence
• How GPS might best be implemented in practice, and the challenges of operating GPS tagging.
Testing the appetite of decision makers to use GPS tags

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Pre-Trial
Short
Sentence
Inmates on
Temp. Work
Release
Prisoners’
Escort
Early Release Post Release
Other Pilots– Inmates on Temporary Work Release
• Pilot about to commence July 2017
• Supervision of prisoners on temporary leave for work purposes
• Allow inmates to maintain ties with the community even during incarceration
• Inmate’s earnings go to pay restitution to victims and for family support/rehabilitation
purposes
• Facilitate re-integration to society upon sentence completion

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Will the EM profile of the UK change?
New modalities could double usage in the next five years?
Reform Prisons ROTL
Persistent Offender Monitoring
VAWG strategy
Foreign National Offenders (HO)
General increase non-custodial
Driven by prison populations
Security and immigration policy
Continued focus on protecting victims of
domestic violence
According to “Reform” it costs £8-£16 per
day for monitoring a person on a tag vs
£73.00 per day for a prison place

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For Consideration
If the introduction of new Electronic Monitoring regimes results in different decisions for the release of
subjects into the community do we have the corresponding resources and process in place to:
• Adequately assess risk?
• Respond effectively to condition breaches?
• Educate and support victims?
• Support offenders through rehabilitation programmes?
• Use the opportunity to integrate offenders back into society and break the cycles of reoffending?
EM is an enabler…..

13. Thank you
Contact
Matt Spencer
General Manager Public Security
mspencer@mmm.com
+44 (0) 7827 938723