Posted AT 3:57 AM EST on 12/08/08
Ottawa's ankle bracelet initiative called 'correctional quackery'
It was good enough for Lindsay Lohan, but a Canadian trial program that will fit 30 federal parolees with ankle bracelet tracking devices is just "correctional quackery," one critic says.
The comments were made after Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day announced yesterday the trial "electronic monitoring" program. Beginning next month, 30 federal prisoners in Ontario will be "strongly encouraged" when paroled to participate in the ankle bracelet trial period.
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