Home Detention

Home Detention

For prisoners, life in prison is hard to recover from. It separates them from their families, their friends, their career, and sometimes from themselves. Home detention, also, known as 'electronic monitoring' or 'house arrest', has been made to reduce that. Home detention is where a convicted person may serve the final part of his or her sentence outside of the jail, and among the community. This can be gained by most common criminal cases, where imprisonment does not seem needed.

A person on home detention is given a list of rules that he or she must comply with. Firstly they must have a suitable place of residence. This will be the only place where the person may sleep, and in many cases, the only place the person is allowed to be. There are ways for which you can apply for leaving the premises, which include: For employment purposes; for educational purposes; to report to the nearest police station; urgent medical or dental treatment; vocational training; and of course an emergency such as a fire. All but the last must be approved by the chosen Probation Officer. As well as the option of work or education, the person must do set hours of community service. This is compulsory for all on parole.

When they are on house arrest, it is needed that they report to their probation officer, or the nearest police station. This is done to make sure that they are not going far distances; going only to necessary places, or otherwise staying in the house.

Bibliography

Internet:

* http://www.prisonersfamilieshelpline.org.uk/php/bin/readarticle.php?articlecode=9259

* http://www.paroleboard.govt.nz/nzpb/board-hearings/conditions.html

* http://www.paroleboard.govt.nz/nzpb/utilities/freq/homed.html