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Monitoring and Controlling Criminal Offenders Using the Satellite Global Positioning System Coupled to Surgically Implanted Transponders: Is It a Viable Alternative to Prison?
This essay criticizes the continuing use of prisons as the primary means of controlling adjudicated criminal offenders. After conceding that prisons do control, but in ways which violate most of what has been discovered and should be known about how to promote lasting, positive behavior change, the argument is advanced that prisons are obsolete and should be replaced by a satellite surveillance system that would offer a better, less costly method to both monitor and control criminal offenders under conditions with far more potential for successful rehabilitation efforts.
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