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Gang Members Kept In Line By GPS
By sfgate.com
Published: 08/06/2010

A self-described former gang member in a silver and black Bo Jackson Raiders jersey and Nike high tops strutted into an Oakland parole office Thursday morning to get a new GPS unit strapped around his ankle.

Sergio, 43, said he wasn't happy to represent one of the new frontiers of state corrections. The anklet he has worn 24 hours a day for the past two months, he said, made him feel like a dog on a leash.

"Like in the cartoons," said Sergio, who declined to give his last name, "where the dog gets shocked if he crosses the line."

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