politics
December 8, 2025
An AI model trained on prison phone calls now looks for planned crimes in those calls
The model is built to detect when crimes are being “contemplated.”
TL;DR
- Securus Technologies trained an AI model on years of inmate phone and video calls to detect criminal activity.
- The company is piloting this AI to scan inmate calls, texts, and emails in real-time to predict and prevent crimes.
- Critics like Bianca Tylek of Worth Rises argue that inmates are not aware their data is used for AI training, calling it 'coercive consent'.
- Corene Kendrick of the ACLU's National Prison Project states the new AI system enables invasive surveillance, with technology outpacing the law.
- The FCC has recently allowed telecom companies to pass security costs, including AI development, onto inmates, reversing previous reforms.
- FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez dissented, stating law enforcement, not families of incarcerated people, should pay for security costs.
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