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Some prisoners on medical parole are being placed in nursing homes, and opinion is divided on whether they are a threat to the public or to the homes’ other residents.
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New York State revamps its policy on parolees, reducing the number that are returned to prison for minor parole violations; new guidelines sort parolees as low- or high-risk and tailor their supervision accordingly, in an effort to reduce recidivism rates. Photo (M)6
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The lawyers for Barry Bonds paid $455 and filed a notice to the federal trial court in San Francisco late Wednesday, saying that Bonds was asking the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal to toss out his conviction.
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One court program to help keep offenders from returning to prison has had a 100 percent success rate; another, 88 percent. Both are being eliminated because of budget cuts.
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A reader responds on an editorial regarding parole and the death penalty.
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A reader responds to an editorial on the use of parole in the justice system.
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A fair-minded society should not sentence anyone to life without parole except as an alternative to the death penalty.
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Authorities said that Casey Anthony, who has remained hidden since a jury acquitted her of killing her daughter, was polite and cooperative during a meeting with her probation officer.
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 Parole hearings take on new urgency for victims’ families as California copes with prison overcrowding.
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Charles Baeza, 72, tried to buy a gun and silencer from an undercover officer, the police said, 20 years after he was convicted of killing his estranged wife.
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Casey Anthony must return to Orlando within two weeks to serve a year’s probation for check fraud, a Florida judge ruled Friday.
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Patrick Gleason, an ex-convict from Maywood, has a starring role in a new independent film, “Fancypants.”
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A Moscow court on Monday refused a parole request by Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, the jailed former oil tycoon, citing a lack of proper paperwork.
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States must rethink parole and probation policies that drive hundreds of thousands of people back to prison every year, not for new crimes, but for technical violations.
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A former Congressional aide who pleaded guilty in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal was sentenced to probation rather than prison on Wednesday.
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User Experience
Actsoft’s House Arrest Solution (HAS) provides access to real-time active GPS data 24 hours a day, 7 days per week and 365 days per year.
The HAS user interface was specifically designed for the electronic monitoring industry. In fact, while in development, Actsoft worked directly with agency personnel to ensure their specific requirements were met.
A web-based application, HAS is accessible through any computer with internet access. The software is flexible, allowing agency personnel to define specific time periods for GPS information to be obtained and transmitted across the wireless network. These parameters can be configured on an individual offender basis. For higher risk offenders, more active tracking parameters can be established versus someone who is less risky.
Officers receive active GPS location data for each offender wearing the ankle bracelet and wireless handset. Personnel can track date, time and location information, to include the current status of each sensor on the bracelet.
Using NAVTEQ mapping content, an industry leading source of mapping information, agency personnel can obtain street level mapping or satellite images based on specific requirements. Reports are available for review, outlining information for individuals or groups of offenders.
The user interface allows agency personnel to obtain a historical breadcrumb trail for each offender, displaying where the offender went, including date, time, location and status of sensors.
Agency Personnel can easily create, edit and update Inclusion and Exclusion Zones for each offender. The HAS View Monitoring Software allows Control Zones to be defined by type (Inclusion or Exclusion) and apply specific parameters to each zone. Personnel can use the Control Wizard to define Control Zones by Day of Week and Time of Day.
Personnel can define how they want to receive Alerts and Notifications for any Control Zone Violations. In addition, Alerts and Notifications are automatically generated if any Trip Levels are exceeded based on the original baseline of the Sensors on the Bracelet.
Agency Personnel can zoom in on specific offender locations to monitor if any exclusion Zones were violated.