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10.08.2025
Jails throughout the nation try a high-tech answer to maintain prisoners protected. Will it work?
Nurse Lynda Witkowski, who runs the wristband biometric monitoring program on the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility in Philadelphia, attaches the system to a reporter’s arm.
Yearly, 1000’s of individuals die in prisons and jails throughout the nation. In Philadelphia, the officers operating the town’s jails have turned to wearable biometric bracelets — created by an organization known as 4Sight Labs — that are supposed to establish when somebody is experiencing a medical emergency to allow them to shortly obtain care.
Philadelphia is only one of greater than 60 jurisdictions throughout the nation which have employed 4Sight Labs’ applied sciences to assist make choices about healthcare for incarcerated individuals. “Our purpose is to not miss a well being disaster,” stated 4Sight Lab’s CEO David Sanders.
Journalists from Right here & Now and The Marshall Venture went inside a Philadelphia jail to study how these high-tech surveillance instruments can cut back the variety of preventable deaths behind bars–and the place they might be falling brief.
