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Corrections Technology and Practice Can Be Represented as Five Main Categories

• Facility operations and population services
• Person-worn equipment and weapons/force
• Information and communications
• Vehicles
• Doctrine, tactics, management, and behavioral knowledge development and training

The Corrections Advisory Panel Identified 19 High-Priority Needs for Community Corrections and 29 for Institutional Corrections

• Most of the top-tier needs fell under one of two main taxonomy categories: (1) information and communications, and (2) doctrine, tactics, management, and behavioral knowledge development and training.
• Examples of high-priority technology needs included deception detection, new illegal drug detection tools, automated translation tools, various scanners and detectors for detecting weapons and other contraband materials, and policies for analyzing offender social media use.

The Elements of the Innovation Agenda — and the Requirements to Meet Them — Vary Considerably

• Develop and improve technology. The corrections enterprise needs some new technologies to meet its specialized needs.
• Adapt technology to the corrections environment. Though some existing technologies can meet corrections needs, tools must address the complexities of community and institutional settings, as well as sensitivities and legal concerns.
• Perform research and analysis. Some needs from both working groups require developing new knowledge to guide practice.
• Validate tools. There was a clear call for assistance in demonstrating that some existing tools actually do what they say they do.
• Change organizations' policies and practices. Policymakers and decisionmakers can build incentives into grant and other mechanisms to shape behavior, but outside forces can only facilitate — not execute — new innovations.