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File Name | S22-Policy-NCFCA-24-NEG-AIAnalysisCalls.docx |
File Size | 57.78 KB |
Date added | November 8, 2021 |
Category | Policy (NCFCA) |
Author | Vance Trefethen |
Resolved: The United States Federal Government should significantly reform its policies regarding convicted prisoners under federal jurisdiction
Case Summary: The AFF plan uses artificial intelligence to monitor and flag outgoing phone calls from federal prisoners to detect suicidal intentions, criminal plots, contraband smuggling, and other threats. There are at least 3 major companies that contract with prisons at the State level to do this today: GTL, Securus, and LEO Technologies (a.k.a. “Verus”). The federal government does not yet have such a system in place, and they only way to get it would be to contract with these companies for it (the federal Bureau of Prisons doesn’t have the software developers nor the manpower to do it themselves). All prisons (state and federal) tell prisoners that their outgoing phone calls (they can’t receive incoming calls) are subject to surveillance and recording. But the reality is that nobody is listening most of the time, and nobody has time to go back and play the recordings of hundreds of hours of random stuff prisoners talk about. The plan has AI listen to the recordings, transcribe them automatically, and search them for key words that indicate something bad is being discussed. Then, prison officials and law enforcement can take action to prevent or solve whatever the problem is, hopefully before it happens or gets any worse (like a prisoner discussing killing himself, or a plot to smuggle drugs into the prison, or retaliatory violence against someone who testified against the prisoner at trial).