If you have one of these on, can you leave your front door for a few feet? A few seconds? Is there a radius/perimeter you can't go past? Anyone know?
How do house arrest anklets work?
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did that one movie with the guy who was under house arrest make you think of this? Where he meets that chick and they solve some crime mystery?
Probably will set something off in the bracelet (or tracker that coincides with the bracelet). Come to NY and I'll buy you, Zin, Platypus, and K1052 a few beers while we figure it out.
i think it has a low budget gps and records the data. i dont think it immediately notifies authorities. when you see your probie they read the bracelet to see if their was any warnings.
used to know someone that was on house arrest. He was allowed to go into the yard and house only. There were a couple times he said he walked outside of the yard (ie to get the mail or accidentally step outside of the boundary) and by the time he got back inside they were calling on the phone.
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The way these work are, at least the ones we use are. They have three distance settings something like 35, 75 and 150 feet. They are connected to a phone line and if the machine loses the connection then it phones home. The distance also depends on what is between you and the device so if your house is soild conrete it will drstically reduce you distance.
Okay, so if someone was under house arrest and living in an apartment, and their building is hotel-like in that each apartment's front door is connected by a walkway across the front (think of Danny DeVito's girlfriend's building at the end of Twins) and there are stairs every so often, could this person conceivably walk upstairs to the apartment above him? Maybe the worst he'd get is a phone call?
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I think the idea behind a phone call is that if you can get the call, you're probably close enough to count, but consider it a warning.
You know, if we Googled everything for ourselves, there wouldn't be a whole lot of interesting, informative threads.
Thanks to everyone who contributed
I had one on for a month when I forgot to pull over.
Anyways, they charged me about $400 to setup it up. They installed a router like device on my phone line that synced with the ankle bracelet. The bracelet had a rubber strap with wires embedded into it connecting to a plastic box roughly the size of a pack of cards. They left about a 1/4 inch of slack to allow circulation. I could shower with it, stuff my socks under it etc. I put lotion on my ankle the first week but it never caused chaffing.
There is NO alarm or buzzer or anything like that when you step out of bounds on the system they had me on. The router just calls and lets the police/contractor or whomever know that the bracelet is no longer repeating the signal from the router. I was informed I could go anywhere in the house but shouldn't go father than 10 ft outside of it to stay on the safe side. Regardless of the range I was not permitted to leave my property expect when I had to go to work, in which case I had to fill out this form that had the time when I would leave, and when I would arrive home with no stops in between.
If I remember correctly they said when they get an alert, they will try to call you within 2 minutes. If I dont answer they send the police to check. If I wasnt there I'm sure some repercussion would follow. I didn't have a problem with it, just spent allot of time playing Mario Cart.
Anyways, they charged me about $400 to setup it up. They installed a router like device on my phone line that synced with the ankle bracelet. The bracelet had a rubber strap with wires embedded into it connecting to a plastic box roughly the size of a pack of cards. They left about a 1/4 inch of slack to allow circulation. I could shower with it, stuff my socks under it etc. I put lotion on my ankle the first week but it never caused chaffing.
There is NO alarm or buzzer or anything like that when you step out of bounds on the system they had me on. The router just calls and lets the police/contractor or whomever know that the bracelet is no longer repeating the signal from the router. I was informed I could go anywhere in the house but shouldn't go father than 10 ft outside of it to stay on the safe side. Regardless of the range I was not permitted to leave my property expect when I had to go to work, in which case I had to fill out this form that had the time when I would leave, and when I would arrive home with no stops in between.
If I remember correctly they said when they get an alert, they will try to call you within 2 minutes. If I dont answer they send the police to check. If I wasnt there I'm sure some repercussion would follow. I didn't have a problem with it, just spent allot of time playing Mario Cart.
Thats stupid. That night I was arrested I spent 4 hours in jail, till my gf could finally bail me out, with people I wouldn't want to spend 1 minute with. On house arrest I could still go to work, still have friends visit me, drink, play friggin Mario Cart etc..
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