No Tagging of Prisoners

Iv’e obviously missed some vital piece of information as my understanding was that tags were used for those on early release scumbags and they are around the ankle. That may only be used here in England. Sounds like they are looking at job cuts – tag up the prisoners and then after a year or so management will have sufficient evidence that less staff are needed..

‘…The pale pacyderms are starting to run the place…’ love it Thumper! And your dead on the money.

Put them in stocks and parade them thru Civic

correction: invade not introduce prisoner’s privacy.

oh, one other thing. Did any one hear the ACT Civil Liberties spokesman on ABC radio yesterday saying that these tags would introduce prisoner’s privacy.
Umm, they get striped search when entering a prison (in NSW at least), shower naked in communal showers while under the watch of guards and have their movements monitored by video surveillance though out the day in prison. Will a little tag that will transmit their name and id to a computer screen in the admin offices really invade their privacy much more?

We’re not talking the cow like ear tags here (though that’s wouldn’t be a bad idea), we’re talking wrist or ankle tags. It would be quite useful. Prison officers can’t be everywhere, all the time. If you have electronic tracking, then all prisoners are automatically accounted for, it means that if there is a fight, tags will reveal who was where at the time, and it may reveal certain patterns such as if prisoners are doing strange things in a certain area such as drug dealing.

They could etag their gate mechanisms.

Access via etag control/timings

If your etag is not where it should be, alarms go off.

The decision not to tag prisoners is probably due to funding (or lack of it) – as opposed to human rights or IT capabilities.

how about the red-laser dog collars things … each time they step out the nominated zone they get a complimentary dose of electro shock therapy.

I’d like to see ear tags like cattle have. Make it a fashion statement and gives you something to grab hold of if they play up 😉