Locked Up Andrew Bardwell via Wikimedia
Americans have a prison problem -- namely, we've got a whole lot of people in prisons and that's a huge drain not only on hard money in our public coffers, but on man-hours lost by both the inmates and the people who spend their productive hours keeping an eye on them. But Graeme Wood, writing in The Atlantic, describes a new prison paradigm that would take the economic - and, for the inmates, psychological - duress out of our penal system: let most of the inmates go free. Then use technology to monitor their every move. Read more »
GPS Tracking A GPS-IIRM satellite. Wikimedia Commons
