SA> According to the a staff member at the site, relatives can "see
SA> what's going on: Are they spending a lot of time in their apartment
SA> or are they out on an outing with other residents."

Yup, and the real problem -- staff can allow themselves to become quite
distracted now and if/when there is a real problem, they'll be so used to not
being alert to problems, being their focus is on their video game, telephone
call, flirting with one another, etc., etc., that when something does come up,
out of the ordinary, or not indicating about to lose an inmate at the outer
periphery (hey, if you hear the beep for them slipping out the side door, you
can continue what you're doing until you hear the beep for the back fence, and
STILL have time to finish what one is doing before appointing the
lowest-seniority staff member currently on to go chase down the escapee!

That might be fine for that purpose, but what about when the staff are so
distracted by their non-duty activities, that they're too far from being on
alert when something ELSE happens (eg. choking, cardiac coding, falling, etc.?)

Your friend,
<+]::-{)}  (Cyberpope(the Bishop of ROM!))


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