GPS Tracking May Allow Minor Offenders to Walk

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There are many ways to break the law, most of which lead a criminal straight to prison. White-collar and non-violent crimes are just as rampant, if not more so, than violent crimes, and yet we choose to punish the offenders the same way: by confining them in dingy prisons controlled by the government. Do carjackers and DUI offenders really deserve to be incarcerated in prisons with violent criminals where they are likely to harden and become even more offensive to the law-abiding American lifestyle?

There are currently 2.3 million Americans incarcerated, putting America in the lead for having the most prisoners. Americans make up only 5% of the global population, making this a humiliating statistic. China, which is four times as populated, only has 1.6 million people in prison. They come in a very distant second for countries with the most prisoners. This is a disgrace to America, so-called Land of the Free. We also have the highest percentage of citizens imprisoned, approximately 7.5 for every 10,000 people.

BI, a company that specializes in GPS tracking devices for parolees, maintains that using trackers for parole surveillance is an effective solution. They run on programs that are designed on a unique tracking system that enables the caretaker of the client to draw specified zones on Microsoft MapPoint and Bing Maps for Enterprise, mapping technologies that are the best in the industry. These programs can then be assigned to alarm the caretaker and/or call the police if the client goes into a non-safe zone. The client doesn’t need constant surveillance, just the thought that someone could be watching him/her at that given moment creates enough of a Big Brother effect that he wouldn’t even feel comfortable skimming the ground around a non-safe zone.

There’s no reason that these technologies shouldn’t be integrated into the federal judicial system. Some of the more technologically savvy local court systems have already implemented such systems to ease the work load of their overburdened parole officers. It is still yet to be seen if this will ever be put to use on a larger scale.

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