SA parolee tracking implemented - Report

A pilot project for the electronic monitoring of parolees and probationers from South African prisons went live this month, ITWeb reports.

According to the report, the project aims to deal with the issue of overcrowding at correctional facilities, and to minimise the possibility of violation of parole conditions.

The report states that the pilot involves 150 parolees – including 70 convicts with life sentences, who are on parole. The media liaison officer at the Department of Correctional Services (DCS), Sonwabo Mbananga, was quoted saying that the project will last for 12 months and cost R6.8 million.

Each inmate will receive a bracelet that communicates with a satellite, allowing correctional officers to monitor where participating parolees are at all times.

If the bracelets are tampered with it triggers an alarm, according to the report.

Oh well lets start the test with those with life sentences - WTF?? this is just typical SA isn't it and I bet they all cANCer members which are now free to be guinea pigs @ our risk??
 
Contrary to what you may believe, not all 'lifers' back on the street deserve to be in jail. I think we can all say we have done some regretable things in our lifetimes, things that we'd take back in a flash, given the chance. Some people just pushed that enevlope a little too far, and I think they paid for their crimes if they spent a 'life' sentence in an SA jail.

I think this program is about showing a little humanity - how long can you pay for a crime, especially if you show remorse? It's about protecting the man on the street from the few who would take their freedom for granted and abuse it all over again. Don't condemn those who don't take it for granted!
 
FlatspinZA said:
Contrary to what you may believe, not all 'lifers' back on the street deserve to be in jail. I think we can all say we have done some regretable things in our lifetimes, things that we'd take back in a flash, given the chance. Some people just pushed that enevlope a little too far, and I think they paid for their crimes if they spent a 'life' sentence in an SA jail.

I think this program is about showing a little humanity - how long can you pay for a crime, especially if you show remorse? It's about protecting the man on the street from the few who would take their freedom for granted and abuse it all over again. Don't condemn those who don't take it for granted!
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What did you or someone close to you do?
 
What will the bracelets do if the people are for some reason, out of satellite communication range? Taking underground garages as an example.
 
Hmm, let's see....I'm on a life sentence and you wanna put a stupid little bracelet on me and release me into the wild.....hell give me 5min and that thing will be off and lying in a taxi driving around durban central all day.....good luck trying to get the cops to find that bracelet on a taxi (at the rate these taxi drivers drive), yet alone trying to find me once I have disappeared.

Lol...what idiots!
 
Someone who stole a billion dollars due to hedge fund manipulation and other advanced methods might have a sentence of a 100 years.

The again some one who has stolen a couple of TVs might be convicted of being a habitual criminal and also be sentenced to a life in prison. Both of them are granted parole.

Who are you willing to engage with?

I choose the guy who tried to siphon a billion dollars.
 
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FlatspinZA said:
Contrary to what you may believe, not all 'lifers' back on the street deserve to be in jail. I think we can all say we have done some regretable things in our lifetimes, things that we'd take back in a flash, given the chance. Some people just pushed that enevlope a little too far, and I think they paid for their crimes if they spent a 'life' sentence in an SA jail.

I think this program is about showing a little humanity - how long can you pay for a crime, especially if you show remorse? It's about protecting the man on the street from the few who would take their freedom for granted and abuse it all over again. Don't condemn those who don't take it for granted!
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Related to Ekstasis or whatever his name is by any chance?
 
ponder said:
Related to Ekstasis or whatever his name is by any chance?
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Nope. I just met a man who went bossies and killed the people who murdered his mother, father, and sister on their farm in KZN in 1989. He tied them up and dragged them behind his bakkie until they were dead, all three of them. He received the death sentence, which was then commuted to life in 1994. He got out in January this year. I think we'd all go ape if that happened to us, and I think he has done his time. Now he has nothing, not even his family's farm.
 
FlatspinZA said:
Nope. I just met a man who went bossies and killed the people who murdered his mother, father, and sister on their farm in KZN in 1989. He tied them up and dragged them behind his bakkie until they were dead, all three of them. He received the death sentence, which was then commuted to life in 1994. He got out in January this year. I think we'd all go ape if that happened to us, and I think he has done his time. Now he has nothing, not even his family's farm.
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Hectic! :wtf:
 
They should let us know what frequency these tracking devices are using. That way we could monitor for ourselves if any 'threats' are around. Far too often do we have people on parole committing crime again.

Mind you, they can probably be blocked using a garage door remote.
 
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