{"id":181155,"date":"2026-01-23T21:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T02:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/23\/artificial-intelligence-crime-and-prisons\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T04:45:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T09:45:18","slug":"artificial-intelligence-crime-and-prisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/23\/artificial-intelligence-crime-and-prisons\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Intelligence, Crime and Prisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/savageminds.substack.com\/p\/artificial-intelligence-crime-and\">Artificial Intelligence, Crime and Prisons<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/savageminds.substack.com\/p\/artificial-intelligence-crime-and\">https:\/\/savageminds.substack.com\/p\/artificial-intelligence-crime-and<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-23 21:23:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"savageminds.substack.com\">savageminds.substack.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood&#8217;s vision for the criminal justice system includes extensive use of AI and surveillance, drawing controversial comparisons to Jeremy Bentham&#8217;s Panopticon.<\/li>\n<li>Mahmood advocates creating an omnipresent surveillance state for crime prevention with AI technologies, even suggesting citizens may be subjected to constant monitoring.<\/li>\n<li>The Labour Party&#8217;s plans, including a 2025 pilot program for offender surveillance, reflect a broader governmental initiative to use AI for advanced crime detection and prevention.<\/li>\n<li>There is significant debate about whether these plans foster necessary security measures or represent an invasive overreach that disregards individual privacy and civil liberties.<\/li>\n<li>Critics argue against total surveillance societies, with some Labour peers voicing concern, albeit possibly misinterpreted as dismissive, over the direction implied by Mahmood&#8217;s vision.<\/li>\n<li>Proponents of the approach, like Lord Mike Katz, defend the initiatives by claiming they are constrained by compliance with the Data Protection Act 2018, although critics remain skeptical of such assurances.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial Intelligence, Crime and Prisons https:\/\/savageminds.substack.com\/p\/artificial-intelligence-crime-and Publish Date: 2026-01-23 21:23:00 Source Domain: savageminds.substack.com UK Home&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":181156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!Nh7y!,w_1200,h_675,c_fill,f_jpg,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep,g_auto\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa7950b4d-ecf0-4230-88f0-682f67ac7237_2048x1152.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-181155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181157,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181155\/revisions\/181157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}