Four Ways to Integrate Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) Into Corrections Management

Department of Corrections (DOC) officers and intelligence units must maintain a safe and secure environment for inmates, employees, and visitors. Additionally, they must run and maintain operations of facilities efficiently and effectively. And they must do this all while being significantly undermanned and under-resourced. Security Threat Groups (STGs), prison smuggling, officer safety and drone interdiction are four areas where Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) can provide corrections management information to keep the facilities safe.

Corrections officers spend countless hours manually searching for and analyzing online activity to give corrections management intelligence on impending threats to the security and safety of the facility. Analysts are often unable to piece disparate and unstructured data together to see the complete picture of an inmate or Security Threat Group (STG). Because of this, AI-powered automated web investigation has become a crucial part of intelligence methodologies and corrections management to enhance prison safety. DOCs need an AI-powered, user-friendly, comprehensive platform that can quickly extract and analyze data from all layers of the surface, deep and dark web. Using an automated platform enables DOCs to quickly find and analyze online content to help propel web investigations forward to interdiction drones, contraband and alert officers to threats to their safety and the safety of prisoners.

Download our newest ebook to learn about how integrating OSINT into existing intelligence operations can quickly uncover threats associated with contraband, prison smuggling, Security Threat Groups (STGs) and drones in prisons and jails.