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Building Prisons Without Walls Using GPS Devices
Hugh Pickens writes "Graeme Wood writes in the Atlantic that increasingly GPS devices are looking like an appealing alternative to conventional incarceration, as it becomes ever clearer that traditional prison has become more or less synonymous with failed prison. 'By almost any metric, our practice of locking large numbers of people behind bars has proved at best ineffective and at worst a national disgrace,' writes Wood. But new devices such as ExacuTrack suggest a revolutionary possibility: that we might do away with the current, expensive array of guards and cells and fences, in favor of a regimen of close, constant surveillance on the outside and swift, certain punishment for any deviations from an established, legally unobjectionable routine. 'The potential upside is enormous. Not only might such a system save billions of dollars annually, it could theoretically produce far better outcomes, training convicts to become law-abiders rather than more-ruthless lawbreakers,' adds Wood. 'The ultimate result could be lower crime rates, at a reduced cost, and with considerably less inhumanity in the bargain.'"
It's not the same thing.
You're talking about a something that simply tracks the prisoner, but does not take an enforcement measures.
If a prisoner walks out of his allowed boundary - the police is notified and they should dispatch someone to get the prisoner back...
however, imagine something that would deal an extremely painful, incapacitating electric shock whenever one steps out of his allowed boundary.
That's what "swift, certain punishment for any deviations" is all about.
Of course, that's just wishful thinking. Let the liberal, hippies castrate this until it won't "scar" the delicate souls of the inmates, limiting it to such a stupidity and rendering it completely incompetent - after which they would complain how it failed miserably.
Personally, I would give my vote to something that delivers a lethal injection on confirmed violation.
Sigs are for the weak.
The liberal lefties at work, trying to castrate an idea before it has even manifested itself.
You're so sure technology cannot be polished and that everything's going to fail, then why risk driving a car? why risk going on a bus? the under paid bitter driver might smash into a wall for fun.
Or why eat out? the underpaid bitter waiter might poo in your food for entertainment.
Why aren't police officers shooting people for fun?
Why do you think someone cannot create a system which is good enough to not zap wrongfully?
How about requiring an authorization password from the operator - which immediately logs the operator name, time and the location of the prisoner - to guarantee accountability? no. liberal hippies are no better than small minded bigots.
Sigs are for the weak.
consis7ent with the
Ooh.. defensive.
If you'd pay attention, the things they "pointed out" were things that cannot be abused unless the system was designed by complete retards. Also, the assumption that bugs and glitches cannot be fixed and smoothed out is fundamentally incapacitating for any sort of future development.
Liberals is something that once stood for great principals and freedom - but since have been twisted, violated and transformed int the abomination it now is - a suicidal attitude that favors the perpetrator over the victim.
Sigs are for the weak.
Agreed. my utter disgust of these people got the better of me.
Sigs are for the weak.
This is incipient tyranny, no more, no less. Just wait - if this isn't stopped, in five years these devices will be used routinely in High Schools (probably as a condition for participation in Athletics and other after School activities), and in ten years as a condition for employment in certain kinds of jobs.
Well, that is sweet.
So before committing a crime which my lead you to have a shock-bracer people will actually *think* about the consequences? becoming preys from attackers uh?
I am sure that will be a good incentive to avoid committing a crime no?
Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'
Did a hippie molest you as a child or something? Oh wait, you'd have like that...
You're carried away.
I wouldn't put it on every offender everywhere. use common sense.
The problem with liberals is that they've lost all common sense.
Sigs are for the weak.
Maybe we could tackle it by incarcerating them in some sort of Super Brutal Murderous Rapist Prison, to keep the other brutal murderous rapists safe in their Regular Brutal Murderous Rapist Prison.
Ah, God bless liberals. Always with the "There's a problem! Someone needs to do something about it!"
Here's the problem: non brutal murderous rapists getting brutally murdered and raped. Here's the solution: stop pretending that it's possible to "rehabilitate" brutal murderous rapists, and just eat the costs of keeping them away from people that actually deserve protection indefinitely. We could cut parole hearings and the parole service to save money, for starters.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.