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House arrest (also called home confinement, or electronic monitoring) is a legal measure where a person is required to remain at their residence under supervision, typically as an alternative to imprisonment.
Prison overcrowding in CA led to a 2011 court order to reduce the state prison population by 30,000 inmates.. In the aftermath of decades-long tough on crime legislation that increased the US inmate population from 200,000 [6] in 1973 to over two million in 2009, [7] financially strapped states and cities turned to technology—wrist and ankle monitors—to reduce inmate populations as courts ...
[7] [8] In 2015 the US had the 2nd highest incarceration rate (698), behind the Seychelles rate of 799 per 100,000. [5] Comparing English-speaking developed countries; the incarceration rate of Canada was 85 per 100,000 (as of 2020), [9] England and Wales was 146 per 100,000 (as of 2023), [10] and Australia was 158 per 100,000 (as of 2022). [11]
Government review will look at using technology to place criminals in a ‘prison outside prison’
A private prison company will run a new U.S. pilot program that would place hundreds of migrants caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border under house arrest, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ...
As the Great Depression hit, the crime rates increased due to individuals having to commit crimes for survival. Although there were still rising numbers of incarcerations from 1929–to 1970, the prison population increased dramatically when Nixon's War on Drugs [5] called for mandatory sentencing. Around the time Nixon's act was introduced ...
However, the study found no evidence that spending more time in prison raises the recidivism rate, and found that those serving the longest time, 61 months or more, had a slightly lower re-arrest rate (54.2%) than every other category of prisoners. This is most likely explained by the older average age of those released with the longest ...
Halfway house effective and well-led, report finds. Alex Blake - BBC Isle of Man. February 4, 2025 at 1:40 AM.