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"Electronic bracelets to track gun-toting Memphis juveniles"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the notable headline of this notable local article from Tennessee.  Here are the intriguing particulars of one of the the latest use of technocorrections (which is being funded by federal tax dollars): Memphis police want to stop gun-toting teens in their tracks -- literally.   Police Director Larry Godwin is teaming with Memphis Mayor A C Wharton to develop a pilot program that monitors the steps of troubled teens through advanced electronic tracking bracelets. It's part of a $2 million, federally funded program to curtail crime using tracking equipment that can pinpoint a detainee's exact location..... Godwin ... and the mayor are teaming to develop a proposed pilot program, "Cease-Fire for Juveniles."  The initiative, modeled partly after a similar program in St...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 15, 2010 (boomark / email).