Thursday, March 29, 2007

Jerry Brown: I was tough on crime and I have the charts to prove it


Jerry Brown: I was tough on crime and I have the charts to prove it
San Francisco Gate - Brown, by the way said he thought the state could improve on the recidivism rate of ex-cons by giving them more incentives in prison to learn a trade, slap GPS tracking systems on far more parolees than is done now, and implement a curfew for parolees

Education, not criminalisation, on roads
Irish Times - What's more worrying is that these GPS tracking systems would not only know how fast we're going, but also where we're off to and when. The reason we love our cars so much is because of the sense of freedom they give us, free from the prying eyes of

How Idaho will decide
Spokane Spokesman-Review - was fitted with an electronic monitoring ankle bracelet yesterday and vowed to wear it until his state Legislature passes his bill to require those convicted of sex crimes against children to wear such bracelets hooked up to GPS tracking systems