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| State Eyes Electronic Monitoring As Alternative To Incarceration |
| By digital.vpr.net- Peter Hirschfeld |
| Published: 06/17/2014 |
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Each year, thousands of suspects are arraigned on criminal charges. And in each case, judges across Vermont are faced with a quandary: release the alleged offender on conditions, or hold him or her in jail pending trial. When the call is a close one, cautious judges will often err on the side of incarceration, even in cases involving relatively low-level offenses. And the result is a population of pre-trial detainees that has exceeded state projections, and become an annual budget-buster at the Department of Corrections. But a new program about to be launched in southern Vermont will soon provide law-enforcement authorities with the capacity to keep constant tabs on the whereabouts of criminal suspects. And Windham County Sheriff Keith Clark says the technology will offer judges a new way of resolving pre-trial dilemmas involving questionable offenders. Read More. |
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