“ Traditional prison , ” write Graeme Wood inthis month ’s Atlantic , “ has become more or less synonymous with die prison . ” One radical solution : scale back traditional prisons in favor of advanced monitoring devices . And it ’s actually not as radical as it sound .
The job is that traditional incarceration is increasingly expensive and exceedingly inefficient . But monitoring devices — like the BI ExacuTrack AT that Wood himself judge out — can now allow officials to nearly supervise unbloody criminals as they go about their day .
Sitting at a computer , hundreds of miles away , an official can monitor a criminal ’s movement through ejection and cellular inclusion zones — the former being places that a particular criminal must avoid , like a school or public park , the latter being places they must be at a sure time , like a job . Here ’s a scene from Wood ’s visit to BI Incorporated , an industry drawing card in the monitoring devices :
I asked Jamie Roberts , a call - sum employee who had previously been a BI customer as a corrections officer in Terre Haute , Indiana , to show me a probationer on the move , and in second he pulled up the profile of a criminal in Newport News , Virginia . The immature gentleman ’s parole officer had used a Microsoft Bing on-line mathematical function to build a big irregular polygon around his in high spirits school - an comprehension zona that would guarantee an alert if he failed to show up for class on metre , every twenty-four hour period . Roberts showed me one wrongdoer after another : epithet and map , lives schedule down to the bit . There was a gambler whose anklet was set to notify Roberts if the node approached the waterfront , because he might try his luck on the play boat ; an addict who could n’t render to the street box where he used to score shot ; and an alcohol maltreater who had to contract himself into an comprehension zone around a church basement for an Alcoholics Anonymous encounter from 9 to 10 p.m. , three fourth dimension a week .
Of naturally , not everyone will take to the thought of criminals being out in the out-of-doors , serving their prison term in practical prison . But as Wood explain , “ when we lock someone up today , we are agreeing to yield a big ( and uprise ) substance of money but to put off dealing with him until he is relinquish in a few year . ” And as that arrangement arise increasingly unsustainable , alternatives to our traditional prison house systems should be explored . enough more prison house food for thought in thefull article . [ The Atlantic ]
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