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Florida Awards Contracts Putting Sex Offenders on GPS Supervision; Other States to Follow
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2005
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2005, page 28
Filed under:
G4S/Group 4,
Discrimination,
Sex Offender Registration,
Sex Offenders (Discrimination),
Mechanical Searches/Scanners,
Rehabilitation/Recidivism,
Parole.
Locations:
California,
Florida.
The Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) has awarded three contracts for Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite monitoring of sex offenders. The contracts come on the heels on legislation that allocated $3.9 million over a three-year period to put certain sex offenders on lifetime GPS supervision, even if their sentences …
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