Prison oversight bills would pilot body-worn cameras for guards, create a Family Advisory Board and permit prisons to destroy ...

A Senate committee approved a proposal to give prison guards body cameras, despite opposition from the Tennessee Department of Correction.

A growing number of state prison systems will soon require guards to wear body cameras or are considering laws that would put such requirements in place. Prison systems hope the body cameras will help ...

A Tennessee Senate panel wants officers at a privately-run prison rocked by a 2025 riot to wear body cameras despite opposition from the state’s correction commissioner. The State and Local Government ...

Body-worn cameras are not used by guards inside Tennessee’s prisons but some made the case for them in a Tennessee Senate hearing Tuesday, though state corrections officials pushed back. The hearing ...

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Nearly every space in New York's prisons and jails must be monitored by cameras at all hours under a set of oversight measures state lawmakers passed near the close of their 2025 voting session. A ...

This story originally appeared in New York Focus, a nonprofit news publication investigating power in New York. Sign up for their newsletter here. CRIMINAL JUSTICE · February 3, 2025 When Jaquan Myers ...

The introduction of body-worn cameras to monitor confrontations between staff and prisoners in Scottish prisons is reportedly being resisted by prison officers who fear the recordings will be used ...