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| City eyes 'virtual' prisons |
| By Philadelphia Daily News |
| Published: 05/29/2008 |
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PENNSYLVANIA - By the fall, hundreds of convicted criminals could get sprung from Philadelphia's crowded jails and instead be under the "virtual lockdown" of a global positioning system. But instead of a guardian angel crooning advice into their ears, a voice barking orders from their ankle - like a modern-day version of Maxwell Smart's shoe phone - would scold offenders who ventured someplace forbidden. That's the vision of Deputy Mayor Everett Gillison, who plans to have a pilot program in place this fall in which more than 200 offenders would wear GPS-tracking anklets embedded with two-way speakers so that guards could immediately detect wayward wearers - and warn them to quit their wrongdoing or risk returning to jail. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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