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Political grandstanding drives GPS tracking grant

By "eAdvocate"

10-21-2010 Texas: From Grits for Breakfast Using federal grant money, Texas is putting GPS monitors on several hundred additional parolees who the Governor says are dangerous sexual predators. But some of them have never been convicted of a sex offense, aren't on the sex offender registry and have been out of prison for many years. Reports the Austin Statesman's Mike Ward: Though Perry and state corrections officials say the mandate will make the public safer, questions linger about why parolees who were considered good enough safety risks to remove from monitors are now dangerous enough to need them ? $1.7 million worth, paid for by a federal criminal-justice grant to improve public safety. "If they've been determined to be a high-risk offender, then they are being reviewed for a GPS bracelet," said Bryan Collier, deputy director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and a former state parole director...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on October 21, 2010 (boomark / email).