A Sensible Alternative To Incarceration

Courts are interested in decreasing the flight risk of defendants and ensuring they appear for trial. Traditionally, courts have used bail for this purpose, which has spawned a bail bond industry that provides loans to defendants for a fee.

Pre-Trial

This pre-trial system has all-too-often cultivated criminals out of innocent people.  Individuals accused of a crime who are unable to afford bail are thrown in jail, separated from their families and at high risk of losing their jobs because they are unable to attend work.   While awaiting a court date, individuals may be incarcerated for weeks or months.   Defendants sometimes have to choose between serving jail time and paying exorbitant bail bondsman fees, even though they may not have committed any crime. 

Recidivism Prevention

Many courts see the same offenders come before them time and time again, cycling between a life of crime and a life in prison. SecureAlert monitoring, in conjunction with a support program of employment and educational opportunities, provides a tool to break this cycle, by enforcing behavior changes such as work/school attendance, home curfews, and avoidance of old hangouts and associates.

Public Safety

SecureAlert is unique in providing high-risk intervention monitoring services for the most high risk offenders. Our operators intervene immediately when alarms occur, and our alarm latencies are extremely low compared to our competitors. Our ReliAlert™  devices are the only ankle bracelets with a 95 decibel siren and two/three way voice capabilities. We offer two types of straps:

• Our standard strap contains fiber optic tamper detection and steel wires—already the most robust strap in the industry
• Our SecureCuff™ high-security strap is made of ¼ inch of hard stainless steel, is resistant to bolt cutters, and withstands up to 20 minutes of damage from metal-cutting power tools. This provides law enforcement responders ample time to respond to strap cut attempts.

Combined, these capabilities deliver the ability to actually change outcomes—to stop crimes in progress—that no other service provider can match. For offenders that represent a potential public safety threat, SecureAlert is the industry’s best solution.

Juveniles

Electronic monitoring of juveniles can enforce healthy school/work/home routines and prevent juveniles from roaming around the streets at night. Compared to institutional juvenile programs, the cost savings can be upwards of $200 per day. Juvenile electronic monitoring represents an excellent and effective alternative to traditional incarceration solutions.

Gang Non-Association Injunctions

Electronic monitoring can enforce non-associating injunctions between gang members, preventing gangs from assembling together.

Domestic Violence Victim Protection

Those accused of domestic violence are often considered to be higher-risk upon release because of the potential consequences should they seek out their victims. Electronic monitoring can enforce exclusion zone restrictions for offenders around victims and areas that they frequent, to provide safety and first-alert alarming should an offender violate those zones.