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Originally Posted by Hippie3  instead of jail for minor offenses
there just is no reason why an offender
can't be given house arrest
and 24 / 7 monitoring by GPS |
On this point Hip I'm in complete agreement with you.
I studied criminal justice for two years, and spent much time examining police technologies. You might be surprised how much it costs to implement a system using GPS technology, specifically a system to keep people on house arrest. Plus, there are drawbacks and problems with the system. Regardless, house arrest will become much more prominent in the future (it is now) along with other crazy-ass policing methods (which might scare the pants off of many of us).
The problem is, we're still dumping billions if not trillions into the criminal justice system. While part of our society is decriminalizing things such as personal marijuana use and decreasing the penalities to perhaps a citation, a much larger wave is moving towards a future where the man/machine will be watching us with a close eye. Plus, theres still the problem of what we should do with the millions of people in prison for "minor offenses".