William is not just on a rigid schedule, he is under home confinement. Instead of sending him to jail, the court decided to release him to the community on the condition that he remain at home except for certain approved activities.
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Federal probation officers who supervise prisoners serving their sentences in home confinement, as well as pretrial services officers working with defendants confined to home awaiting trial, save American taxpayers $95 million a year.
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Encyclopedia: House arrest
In justice and law, house arrest (also called home confinement, home detention, or electronic monitoring) is a measure by which a person is confined by the authorities to his or her residence. Travel ...
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home confinement with the use of electronic monitoring instead of a period of .... Electronically monitored home confinement programs seem to be the wave of...
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home confinement. Instead of sending him to jail, the court decided to release him to the pretrial cases, home confinement is an alternative to...
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Home confinement or house arrest—with and without electronic monitoring (or EM)—is an Offenders placed under home confinement are restricted to their...
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What's going on with Tim Balducci?; Timothy Balducci, the Scruggs scandal co-defendant who turned informant, is still in the Monroe County jail, according to Monroe County Jail They'll have to go home and face constituents and most don't have it in them to venture from the status quo. Clarion-Ledger; 11/22/9;
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With respect to the effects of electronically monitored supervision on the offender and his family, some studies have shown an association between home confinement and domestic violence, yet offenders feel that having the opportunity to maintain close contact with their families is the greatest benefit of...
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Suspended NFL star Michael Vick's federal dogfighting sentence has ended, freeing him to lobby for a return to the field. Vick's release after serving 23 months on a dogfighting conviction -- the last 60 days in home confinement -- came a week before NFL training camps open for veterans.
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"Home confinement" requires that the prisoner serve his jail time at his home, instead of jail. Such prisoners spend nearly 100% of their jail time in their home, and are not permitted to leave except under extraordinary circumstances.
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