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Article: Don't oversell home monitoring. (Letter to the Editor)
- Article from:
- Corrections Today
- Article date:
- July 1, 1993
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A recent "Inside Edition" segment on electronic monitoring featured a murder victim's father shouting that this was the poorest form of incarceration he had ever seen. The show got me thinking about what we in corrections promise by the phrases we use to describe various electronic monitoring programs.
Consider, for example, the words in the phrase "electronic house arrest." Most of us know exactly what we mean by that. But what do the American people picture when they hear those words?
House arrest has commonly been associated with dictatorships in which political dissidents are put under armed guard in their own home. Webster's Dictionary defines the ...