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Texas counties having success with home-detention technocorrections alternative punishment

By Douglas A. Berman

This local story from Texas provides another example of all the cost-saving innovations in corrections finding a measure of success in the Lone Star State.  The piece is headlined "Dallas County's alternative sentencing program lets low-level offenders do time at home," and here is how it starts: What's the difference between a stark jail cell and the comforts of home? For a few lucky Dallas County criminals, the answer is nothing.  Under the county's alternative sentencing plan, certain low-level offenders discharge their sentences under ankle-monitored house arrest, giving them the opportunity to keep their jobs, eat home-cooked meals and enjoy the interaction of family and friends. "I think the program is better than jail," said Arletha Baker, who was released from the program's restrictions recently...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 23, 2010 (boomark / email).