| Customers: Ministry of Justice of Finland Government and social institutions Contractors: Helsinki university Project date: 2019/10
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At the end of October, 2019 it became known that the prison in Turku, the city in the south of Finland, turned into the proving ground for the new project "Smart Prisons". In a number of prison premises there were notebooks and tablets which allow prisoners to get acquainted with news, to be engaged in arithmetics and even to study work with AI.
The rate was developed in the University of Helsinki as more available version of the curriculum "Introduction to AI" for the students studying information science. The initial project objective supported by the government of Finland was in training in AI bases at least 1% of the population of the country.
However this course was completed also by Pia Puolakka, the project manager according to criminal sanctions who thought whether it is possible to deploy the similar program in correctional facilities. Puolakka submitted the offer to the administration, and in May, 2019 the rate was added to the approved list of the websites available to put in Turku.
Technically all this still a university rate therefore consultants work on a system which will allow the prisoners taking a course to obtain the university credits and to attend other virtual lectures. The Finnish government considers that such system will help prisoners to join the digital market after an exit from prison.
 | The economy often changes so quickly that leaving prison, prisoners appear in absolutely new working environment, - explained Megan Schaible, the director of the program of virtual university education. - The same rate is equally available to everyone |  |
The scheme will be unrolled in three prisons of Finland since fall of 2019, and Sheybl hopes that the university will be able to use collected data – for example, indicators of attendance or speed of task performance – for future updates of a rate.[1]
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