Technology Quarterly | Home, home within range
Electronic monitoring is a different approach to jail
You don’t have to go to prison to go to prison
KARL’S troubles began, as troubles often do, in a pub. He and his daughters, both in their early 20s, went out drinking near their home in Stockholm. His daughters got into a scrap with some other young people. He stepped in. “I was dragged down to the ground and it all happened so quick,” he explains. “My side of the story is I was defending my two girls. But the other girls reported me for assaulting them.” The other girls prevailed in court; Karl was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for assault.
This article appeared in the Technology Quarterly section of the print edition under the headline “Home, home within range”