The world is facing a housing crisis with the supply of new houses failing to meet the escalating demand. The 2016 UN Habitat report states that one billion new homes are required by 2025 with an estimated cost of $9-11 trillion. There are already around 850 million people living in ‘informal’ settlements with inflated rents…

The Pathways for Prosperity Commission has just published a new report entitled ‘Positive Disruption: Health and education in a digital age’. The commission was launched in January 2018 by Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government with the aim of exploiting frontier technologies to improve the lives of the world’s poorest communities. The report explores the…

Hong Kong’s Correctional Services department has proposed providing all inmates with a tablet computer for social and educational purposes. Part of the region’s ‘smart prison’ initiative, the scheme would allow prisoners to send emails to authorized recipients, access educational material, and listen to radio programs. The proposed scheme is part of a larger, global trend…

BSWi is proud to announce its participation in the annual ICPA (International Corrections and Prisons Association) conference. The event will be held at the Hotel Panamericano in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 27 October to 1 November 2019. Our representative will be speaking about one of the most topical subjects in the world of correctional facilities:…

The Institute for Criminal Policy Research (ICPR) at Birkbeck, University of London, has published a new report warning of the perils of overcrowding in detention centers around the world. According to the ICPR’s World Prison Brief (WPB), over 60% of prisons have exceeded their inmate capacity, leading to an increase in health problems caused by…