Electronically-Monitored Home Confinement

Paper Summary:

This paper examines how electronically-monitored home confinement (EMHC) is a process used as an alternative to jail or prison and how it is usually instated as a condition or alternative method of probation or parole. It looks at how electronically-monitored home confinement uses modern technology to make sure that offenders ares following the rules stated when they were released from custody and how, since their development in the mid 1960s, the EMHC programs have grown quickly across the United States.

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History
Offenders
Conditions
Devices
Legality
Pros
Cons

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"From its early beginnings till around 1987 most of the people being used for the EMHC program were the first offenders or people found guilty only of non-violent crimes such as the major traffic offences and property offences which made them considered "less risky offenders" or not to be considered a threat to society. Even though they were of lesser crimes they were still considered to be in need of supervision. Since 1988, EMHC has started to be used for the monitoring or house arrest of offenders of more serious crimes such as: theft, burglary, criminal conspiracy, and drug trafficking. Electronically monitored home confinement has also grown to include more uses besides probationers and parolees growing to include juvenile offenders, offenders released from institutional and correctional facilities, and even higher risk offenders such as people awaiting trial for offences including homicide."

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