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A federal appeals court is upholding lifetime G.P.S. monitoring of a convicted felon, in this instance a Wisconsin pedophile who served time for sexually assaulting a boy and a girl. The court upheld the constitutionality of a Wisconsin law that, beginning in 2008, requires convicted pedophiles to wear GPS ankle devices for the rest of their lives.
Opinion:
I can't imagine this not going to the US Supreme Court and, if upheld, steadily being expanded to everyone "for the public good". Though my soul is set ablaze with rage at this, I can't help but think this overall has little impact on the populous in general as we all carry tracking devices willingly for the convenience of contacting loved ones and business associates anywhere. Do you believe there will come a day when everyone's positions will be monitored at all times by law? Do you have an alternative to cellphones that don't track your position?
(Score: 1) by tftp on Thursday February 04 2016, @10:12AM
Maybe you're putting the wrong people in jail.
The war on drugs is creating plenty of criminals out of people who'd be doctors' patients in other, better ran places. Some of drug-related activities are violent, other are not. But when you rent a car in the USA make sure that there are no plastic bags under the seat - even empty. This is a well known, perhaps intentional, mismanagement of the society. It supplies the prison-industrial complex with a steady stream of relatively harmless convicts. After they complete the sentence they become permanently removed from the job market, as nobody at good places would hire an ex-con. Then they have to earn money using every means possible, which expands and arms the police - and often returns them to the prison, back into the loving embrace of modern slave labor. Everyone wins... except the raw material, that is, that the prisoners are.