[DoItToMe81]

Sadly, not All-American anymore. The US police force doesn't exist in a vacuum. There is a whole industry of pseudoscientific interrogation techniques that has set itself up in other nations and regressed their policing by decades. Several states in Australia, and I believe parts of the UK, removed the polygraph as a discredited technique and now accept it as evidence once more.

[n4r9]

UK here, just looked it up and although it's not admissible as evidence in court, since 2021 it can be used as a requirement for release from prison for domestic abusers.

Bloody hell, that is scary.

[xnorswap]

That is scary! Well, we've recently got a new prisons minister, this might actually motivate me to write to them about this.

[n4r9]

I looked them up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Timpson

Woah. It's actually the MD of Timpson, whom Starmer has parachuted into the role along with a peerage. So an unelected Minister, but apparently he's very into prison reform, so there's that.

[xnorswap]

Indeed, Timpson's are a leading employer of people who have served their sentence:

> The company is well known for its policy of employing ex-convicts, who make up over 10% of its workforce

[Quarrel]

Where in Australia?

I've been out of Aus for a few years, but in NSW I understand they're still largely banned (Lie Detectors Act) for employment, courts / evidence, insurance etc (and if they weren't by legislation, they would be for evidence by precedent, which is how the Act came about). As I understood it, this and the Canadian precedent that NSW relied upon, have basically made them a non-starter for courts in Australia ever since.

It's a bit horrifying if they're making a comeback, but then our politicians have always been a bit prone to right wing shock jock rhethoric around election time.