The Teprace Standard, Wednesday, October 9, 1996 - A3 House arrest scheme put back in business By CRIS LEYKAUF THE CORRECTIONAL centre has started up an electronic monitoring program again after a three year absence. The program is designed for non-violent movements. If randomly phones into the in- mate's home every half hour to an hour. Any absence from the home outside of scheduled hours, even to take out the gar- bage will result in an alarm. And the ankle News in Brief Good news, bad news THE ONCE MIGHTY Social Credit powerhouse is slill alive and kicking. Representatives of the party, which has all but dis- appeared, met in Vancouver the end of September and called for a common free enterprise front to defeat the offenders: who have only four months or less to serve on their sentence. This form of house arrest bas been brought back to the area because offenders want it, it Is inexpensive to run, and frees up beds at the correclional centre, And now that the centre is taking remand prisoners — those waiting trial — there is even more need for that space, The house arrest program was shut down three years ago because it wasn’t well used, Part of the problem was too many staff members’ using the sensitive equipment, which led to an inconvenient number of alarms. , But now there are just two correctional officers who will be looking after it And since the house arrest program started up again in August, there have been no ‘‘false alanns.” To qualify for the program, the inmate must be serving a sentence between seven days to four months, and have no history of violence or sexual offences. For example, someone who was responsible for a car ac- cident which caused another person bodily harm would not qualify, says Dale Bell, electronic monitoring officer. Other requirements for the program are ongoing, constructive time commitments, such as counselling, church, or work, The inmate’s schedule is then fed into the com- _ puter. Then an ankle bracelet with a transmitting device is fitted closely to the inmate, and a small locked computer is set up in that rer- son’s home, and linked to a telephone line. device is waterproof, so there’s no reason to ever take it off. If the inmate tries to remove the ankle device, or even tries to stretch the band, an alarm goes off. Then staff from the correctional centre make phone and in-person checks every day to make sure the person is at work, or at home, So far five inmates have used the pro- gram, and (wo are currently on it right now — one living in Terrace and one in Prince Rupert, The area served by the Terrace correc- tional centre is very large and stretches from Atlin to Bella Coola and the Char- lottes to Burns Lake. For tocations outside of Terrace, the cor- rectional centre contracts out the in-person checks with someone in the community, such as probation or RCMP officers. Even though it’s spread out over a large area, the home arrest program is much cheaper than keeping inmates at the correc- tions centre. The cost for the ankle bracelet and home computer unit is about $1,000 and the devices can be used again and again. That compares to the average $30-$40 per day cost of keeping someone incarcerated. So far correctional officer Beli reports the program is proving popular with women in- mates, Being with their children is an important issue for women. They don’t want to move away from town, which they’d have to do since the only prison which accepts women New Democratic Party in the next election. news release. derone banner. Man guilty of assault prison for assaulting another man earlier this year. lice officer, Bushman severely with a piece of wood. on his face, murder for the assault. NO, HE ISN'T a bad guy, John Malo, a member of the citizen's advisory committee for the Terrace cor- rectional centre, demonstrates how inmates under house arrest would wear an ankle monitoring device. That's corrections officer Dale Bell fitting the davice looking for a suspect. “The good news was that 62 per cent of British Columbians voted in favour of free enterprise in the last provincial election. The bad news was they cast ballots over as many as five different parties all claim- ing to represent free enterprise,’’ said the party in a Socreds agreed to name two officials to the newly- created Enterprise League of B.C., a Kamloops-based group designed to gather NDP opponents together un- A TERRACE man has been sentenced to six years in Rupert William Genaille, 19, pleaded guilty in Ter- race Court last week to aggravated assault, robbery, two counts of escaping lawful custody, and assaulting a po- The charges stemmed from the June 10th attack and robbery of 64-year-old Abe Bushman. Police say that Genaille lured Bushman into 4 bushy area in the 4500 block of Soucie Ave, where Genaille robbed and beat Bushman eventually regained consciousness, and managed to get help. He was flown to Vancouver where he underwent extensive reconstructive surgery Genaille had originally been charged with attempted Bushman has had more recently ill fortune, Just last month somebody broke into Bushman’s house, tied him up and stole approximately $2,700. Police are still A central computer located in the correc- is in Burnaby, tional centre keeps track of the inmate’s Phone SCaMmMers DACK At WOK [Berne snestann use She said Bromick told her she would have no trouble in winning a cash prize, if only she first sent in the money. ““Why do you have to send money in order to win?” Lindstrom asked of the scheme. So Lindstrom checked out the company through directory assistance and couldn’t find a listing for it in Montreal, the city in which Bromick said he was based. **T told him I was on to him when he called again,’’ said Lindstrom, ‘‘He started sputtering and I bung up on him.”” Lindstrom’s worried that other seniors might YET ANOTHER PHONE scam operation is targeting local seniors. This time it’s a company calling itself Cana- dian Publishers and its lure is a crystal bowl and the chance to win cash prizes. The hook is that the person called has to first mail $3,210. ‘He said if I could see the bowl, I wouldn’t believe it,’* said local resident Eileen Lindstrom who was contacted by a man calling himself Peter Bromick from Canadian Publishers. Bromick phoned Lindstrom six times over four days tying to convince her to send the money. “MS FACT #8 | ‘We don’t know what causes multiple sclerosis, but research is closer to finding the answer. 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