Back to Questions at Top ^ 20. Was Electronic Monitoring introduced as a means to reduce the prison population and save money?
• Electronic monitoring has been introduced to increase public protection and to support the resettlement of offenders into the community. It supports public protection as it provides an additional measure of control for the supervising agencies. Those who break their curfew conditions will be immediately identifiable and there can be no doubt that an electronically monitored curfew is more effective than a curfew without this provision. • It is the intention that electronic monitoring will support offender resettlement, aiding the transition between prison and release where appropriate and allowing the person to remain in the community to participate in work, training or other rehabilitative programmes. This could potentially reduce re-offending. • Electronic monitoring helps to reduce the number of prisoners held on remand in custody, but electronic monitoring is not being introduced to save money. Whilst it may create notional savings in some areas of the criminal justice system, th
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