Changes and improvements in technology are helping authorities in
southwest Ohio track crime suspects and convicts and freeing up scarce
jail space.The Hamilton County sheriff's office owns or leases 143
electronic monitoring units with GPS and hopes to obtain 50 more. The
ankle bracelets with global positioning system allow low-level offenders
to be monitored while the jail is filled with those involved with more
serious offenses.
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that
authorities say the use of GPS monitoring enables them to track wearers
in almost real time and show where they are and where they have been.
Deputies can use laptops and cellphone apps to monitor, and can send
voice messages to the wearers.
Police can also set up "exclusion
zones" to alert them in domestic violence cases.Authorities recently
used GPS to find a man after the monitor alerted them that he was
getting near his ex-girlfriend's home. Police said they tracked the
monitor to where a car was, but didn't see him. Then they decided to
check the trunk, and found the man hiding inside with the ankle bracelet
on.
"That's how accurate the GPS technology has become," Cpl.
Bryan Hale, who supervises the electronic monitoring unit
operations.Hamilton County has more than 1,200 inmates in its
overcrowded jail, facing a shrinking budget and voter resistance to
paying higher taxes for more jail space. So authorities are exploring
alternative programs, and like the GPS alternative.
"You've got
to keep space available for those who truly need it," Hale said.The
sheriff's office is also still using about 200 old ankle bracelet units
that can be used with land telephone lines. The GPS units cost $2,500 to
buy or $3.88 per unit a day to lease. That's considerably cheaper than
the cost of housing an inmate, and also allows people to go about their
lives while awaiting trial on relatively non-serious crimes. Judges who
determine who should be in the electronic monitoring program praise the
use of the GPS bracelets, as do jailers.
About 85 percent of
those given ankle monitors complete their time without problems. Those
who violate the rules can be sent to jail."This is not a punitive
measure," said Charmaine McGuffey, who is in charge of the county jail,
said of the electronic monitoring. "If you're sitting in jail, you can't
go to work, you can't get medical treatment. I think it's absolutely
the wave of the future."
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