From: Extropian Agro Forestry Ventures Inc. (megao@sk.sympatico.ca)
Date: Sun Dec 29 2002 - 12:26:22 MST
What are the economics of converting the corrections service to a remotely monitored system of
free prisoners. I'm sure somebody has done the math or published all sorts of stuff about
this.
GPS monitored, defined activites at defined locations. Tax paying prisoners instead of tax
consuming prisoners.
This could utilize a well developed monitoring system. Instead of physical prisons an expert
system and human monitored interacive system. There might be indignities such as a forced
implantation with resevoirs of drugs which could be released by remote control. ...ei any time
pre-set activity or location parameters are exceeded.
Maybe special designated clothing to set these individuals apart from others.
Expert system monitoring (wearable computer linked) what each individual sees, does and says
with parameters related to the nature of their offence would be costly but like many military
and public funded technology is a way to develop and test technology.
DARPA was designed to help the military survive a nuclear war. This is a far cry from
applications like chatting on ICQ via the internet.
Similarly the technology for monitoring prisoners could one day be applied to preventing death
through medical monitoring and remotely activated emergency countermeasures.
The facts are that the cost of encarcerating are too high for society to continue.
When millions of hard working people earn 15-30,000 it is not socially responsible to take the
taxes
from 5-10 of these people to pay for the incarceration of one dangerous individual.
The private prison or robocop scenario is not an improvement on the present state.
This may be a distasteful subject but the bottom line is that an intelligent society tries to
maximize the
positive of even the most warped human personalities.
..MJ
Leonid Gavrilov wrote:
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> -- -- To Members and Friends of the Los Angeles Gerontology Research Group:
>
> FYI:
>
> Older prisoners may be set free to save money
>
> Nonviolent, elderly offenders may benefit from California's rapidly
> expanding deficit
>
> With California's budget deficit spiralling toward $35 billion, state
> officials are grudgingly taking a fresh look at proposals to release early
> some nonviolent and elderly prisoners and to close two Bay Area prisons
>
> Source:
> http://www.sanmateocountytimes.com/Stories/0,1413,87%257E11268%257E1071553,00.html#
>
> http://www.sanmateocountytimes.com/cda/article/print/0,1674,87%257E11268%257E1071553,00.html
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