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Government review will look at using technology to place criminals in a ‘prison outside prison’
Alexei Nikolaevich and his sister Tatiana Nikolaevna surrounded by guards during their house arrest in Tsarskoye Selo, April 1917. House arrest (also called home confinement, or electronic monitoring) is a legal measure where a person is required to remain at their residence under supervision, typically as an alternative to imprisonment.
Judges have the option of sending those with misdemeanors or felonies to this program instead of giving them a prison sentence. The program has four categories: general population, substance abusers, women, and youth. The program has a 60% success rate, which is relatively high.
Man charged in Tupac Shakur's killing asks again for house arrest instead of jail before trial By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — An ailing and aging former Los Angeles-area gang leader is due to ask a Nevada judge on Tuesday to change her mind and release him from jail to house arrest ahead of his trial in the 1996 killing of ...
Lynds dismissed the concept of reform, instead treating prison labor as a resource to be exploited to the maximum capacity of the prisoner's human body. Lynds' approach became know, visitors to the U.S. to see the prisons that followed his approach included de Tocqueville, who wrote Democracy in America as a result of his visit. The system was ...
Young Thug’s lawyer, Brian Steel, asked Whitaker to impose house arrest instead, and said the state misunderstood the context of the rapper's lyrics in claiming they showed he was encouraging ...
Former President Donald Trump said he is “okay” with serving potential jail time or being under house arrest following his historic conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
A person who is on remand is held in a prison or detention centre or held under house arrest. Varying terminology is used, but "remand" is generally used in common law jurisdictions and "preventive detention" elsewhere. However, in the United States, "remand" is rare except in official documents and "jail" is instead the main terminology. [1]