What is Home Confinement?
Home Confinement is a bond condition which requires people to be confined to their homes and tracked in the community. The person is linked to a monitoring system through an ankle or wrist transmitter or a tracking device worn or carried 24 hours a day. With home confinement, the court determines the extent to which people are restricted case by case, requiring some individuals to remain on 24-hour-a-day lockdown at home and allowing others to leave for preapproved and scheduled absences, such as work, school, medical or mental health treatment, church, attorney appointments, court appearances, or other court ordered obligations. Electronic monitoring is a system used to increase effectiveness in supervising defendants who are required to abide by curfew or remain in their home as a condition of pretrial release.
PRRS provides services to clients both who are living at the pre-release center and who may be living in their own homes in the home confinement program. Clients eligible for consideration for home confinement are carefully selected for this program and must abide by strict requirements that are the same for those living at the Pre-Release Center. All community activities still require pre-approval and clients must submit to three or more randomly assigned alcohol tests administered remotely each day, must come into the center three times weekly for drug testing and case management services, and are monitored electronically.
If a client is sentenced by the court to serve jail time it is possible to serve that time on “home confinement” or “alternative sentencing.” In Orange County, persons convicted of misdemeanors, and, on occasion felonies, may be eligible for home confinement unless they are convicted of a violent crime or have been convicted of a violent crime in the past. The county has a large incentive to offer home confinement because it saves money in the housing of inmates. The client must pay a fee for home confinement; the fee is determined based on income. Home confinement involves the placing of an electronic bracelet around the ankle of the person sentenced to jail. The individual can continue to work while wearing the bracelet. In addition, one telephone line at the home must be dedicated to the home confinement device at all time. What is Penal Code ยง 1000?
