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California Tracks Parolees With GPS, Then Ignores Alerts
An anonymous reader writes "Several years ago, California decided to require high-risk parolees, such as gang members and sex offenders, to wear GPS monitoring devices. The idea was to relay location information to law enforcement to ensure that the convicts stay where they're supposed to. Unfortunately, the state often misses acting on those alerts, making the devices both a lesson in the pitfalls of technology management and a massive exercise in largely useless spending."
Damn, there was some other government project that fit this description, which I can't seem to remember just now...
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
Prisons are too expensive because they fail to treat the prisoner as an enemy to be broken and are mere warehouses.
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