Let's start with a flashback to the famous Clint Eastwood starrer, Escape from Alcatraz. Here we have the infamous Frank Morris digging a tunnel across a thick concrete wall with a spoon and escaping with his fellow inmates on a boat made of 50 raincoats! Such escapes happen even now. The notorious Korean Houdini used his yogic expertise to squeeze through a structure which was just 17 inches wide. History has a long list of such escape attempts – using apples for grenades and peanut butter to don master disguises.

Escape attempts are not the only ones which threaten the security of the prisons. We still remember the riot in Syria which claimed a toll of 500 plus. Suicides in jails have been on an alarming high with almost 30% of total jail deaths attributed to suicides in a span of 9 years. Similarly, drug peddling, use of prohibited items like mobile phone, weapons are enjoying unobstructed movements despite the scrutiny. Likewise in most of the super max prisons, it is challenging to keep a vigil on the behavioural changes of highly dangerous criminals within the cell and even when they engage within the perimeter. Absence of inmates in assemblies, working lines and even at leisure hours can turn out to be conspicuous. Several attempts of conscious food poisoning have already been reported in prison capacities all across the globe.

Most of the prisons and penitentiaries now deploy a mix of traditional monitoring which includes the deployment of trained personnel at various points and camera surveillance. However, in prisons spread over vast areas, the likeness of human blind spot can be a critical deterrent.

Over the past few years AI has been revolutionizing prison crime monitoring by helping authorities keep a vigilant eye on the inmates within the cell as well as the perimeter. The United States, for instance has made a noticeable leap in acquiring actionable data by monitoring the phone calls of inmates. Results project that predictions from the data has brought down the rate of suicides to a massive extreme. Likewise, in insulated facilities (which often condition the inmate in a threatening manner) using AI for monitoring the behaviour of inmates within the cell has made a significant progress in identifying escape attempts, preventing crowd formations and bring down incidents like peddling. By 2030, it is estimated that AI will take over nearly 100% of the prison monitoring tasks reducing the occurrences of human errors, negligence and other factors like fatigue.

AllGoVision can equip authorities with AI-powered Video Analytics solutions that address an array of concerns that threaten prison security. Crowd formation solution can prevent occurrences of untoward incidents like riots, clashes etc. Object detection can ensure that no prohibited objects such as drugs, weapons and so on get trafficked within the premises. Facial Recognition can be effective in marking the attendance and tracking incidents of disguise. In short, in the age of a revolution in AI-based prison monitoring, AllGoVision can make you achieve the desired edge.