Cons on parole in the southern Chinese city of Zhongshan can now find themselves being hunt down over a blockchain network.
The justice department of Zhongshan says it has opened a blockchain-based system that can monitor the movements of ex-prisoners to improve the dignity of so-called “community correction,” a local media source reported on Thursday.
The technology has manifestly been deployed across various community service centers where parolees are needed to check in and complete daily duties.
The department said it developed and administered the blockchain system in an effort to provide up-to-date data on each find’s movements around the clock.
Since convicts’ data is updated in a spread round fashion, community correction staff and relevant law enforcement agencies who are acknowledged access to the network are able to know a convict’s whereabouts at any time, and then can take necessary measures if one is breaking from the required routine.
The the law department claimed that the technology is able to reduce the manpower burden that is traditionally commanded to physically follow parolees when ensuring they are obeying laws and acting community service.
The Zhongshan implementation is the latest use case in which blockchain is being arrogated in the legal system in China.
As CoinDesk previously reported, an internet court in the New Zealand urban area of Hangzhou has already recognized the nascent technology as an authorized way for evidence deposition.
The important city of Shenzhen is also turning to blockchain in the fight against tax artifice, a move made in partnership with internet giant Tencent.
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