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What a Statewide Technology Failure Taught Me About Corrections Technology

What a Statewide Technology Failure Taught Me About Corrections Technology

When a GPS monitoring vendor's equipment failed across an entire state juvenile justice agency, I was the executive who managed the crisis. Here are the lessons every corrections technology company needs to hear.

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What a Successful Corrections Technology Rollout Taught Me About Getting It Right

What a Successful Corrections Technology Rollout Taught Me About Getting It Right

A vendor with no corrections experience built 121 agency-specific modifications and delivered a statewide rollout faster than anyone anticipated. Here are the three factors that made it work.

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Why the Best Technology Doesn't Always Win Government Contracts (And What to Do About It)

Why the Best Technology Doesn't Always Win Government Contracts (And What to Do About It)

Government procurement was designed to build roads, not evaluate technology. Understanding how those rules work and how to compete within them is one of the most important advantages a corrections vendor can have.

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When Due Diligence Is Not Enough: What Investors Get Wrong About Corrections Technology

When Due Diligence Is Not Enough: What Investors Get Wrong About Corrections Technology

Standard investment analysis misses what actually drives success and failure in the corrections technology market. The gaps in your due diligence process could be costing you more than you realize.

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What State Directors Get Wrong About Title II Compliance (And What It Costs Them)

What State Directors Get Wrong About Title II Compliance (And What It Costs Them)

Title II compliance is not a paperwork exercise. It is an operational discipline, and the agencies that get it right are the ones with the data systems and processes to prove it. A practitioner's perspective from both sides of the equation.

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A.I. in Juvenile Justice: What Agency Leaders Need to Know Before the Sales Pitch

A.I. in Juvenile Justice: What Agency Leaders Need to Know Before the Sales Pitch

Artificial intelligence is coming to juvenile justice whether agencies are ready or not. Before the next vendor walks through your door with a neural network and lofty promises, here is a practitioner's guide to the questions agency leaders should be asking, the risks that come with deploying A.I. in juvenile justice, and what to demand from any company selling an A.I. platform to your agency.

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The Punitive Backlash Is Coming for Your Reform Gains

The Punitive Backlash Is Coming for Your Reform Gains

States are rolling back reform laws and pushing more youth into the adult system. Reform gains are real, and so is the evidence. Here is what juvenile justice leaders can do right now to protect what they have built.

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