Title: Why just sex offenders? Why not Holocaust deniers and revisionists?
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UK Sex Offenders May
Be Tracked For Life By
Satellite Ankle
Device
By Jason Allardyce
http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/06/27/timnwsnws01017.html
6-28-00
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Ý Convicted paedophiles face being tracked by satellites for the rest of
their lives through an ankle tag that would trigger a warning if they entered a
banned area such as a school. Ý Rapists might also be
tagged so that they could not approach their victim's home undetected, under
plans being considered by Home Office officials. The technology is already used
in the United States, where it is known as "reverse tagging" because
it allows the offender to move around, rather than being confined to a
particular place. Ý The technology is also being
examined in Scotland in response to mounting public concern about the number of
serious offenders who are released from jail and then commit further
offences. Ý Lord MacLean, a judge, who chairs a
Scottish government committee on criminal justice reforms, raised the idea after
he observed a scheme operating in Arizona. Ý He said
yesterday that dangerous criminals who were a threat to public safety should be
subject to continuing supervision for the rest of their lives. Ý
The judge called on the Scottish Executive to make a new sentence
available to the courts, which he suggested be called an Order for Lifelong
Restrictions. He said that the sentence could be applied to around a dozen
Scottish criminals each year.
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