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Fyodor Dostoyevsky, author of “Crime and Punishment”, once wrote, “The degree of civilisation in a society is revealed by entering its prisons.” Updated for the 21st century, our “degree of civilisation” might be revealed by the technology used inside them. For Microsoft, prisons represent a market. In recent years, the company and its business partners have started providing an array of surveillance and Big Data analytics solutions to prisons, courts and community supervision programmes. This comes against a backdrop of global protests against police violence along with calls to ...

Microsoft’s iron cage: Prison surveillance and e-carceration Michael Kwet © The exterior of Cook County Jail in Chicago, Illinois [File: REUTERS/Jim Vondruska] The exterior of Cook County Jail in Chicago, Illinois [File: REUTERS/Jim Vondruska] Fyodor Dostoyevsky, author of “Crime and Punishment”, once wrote, “The degree of civilisation in a society is revealed by entering its prisons.” Updated for the 21st century, our “degree of civilisation” might be revealed by the technology used inside them. For Microsoft, prisons represent a market. In recent years, the ...