"Thailand to Microchip Early-Release Convicts"  

Agence France Presse (11/27/02)

In an effort to improve overcrowded prison conditions, Thailand is 
planning to outfit well-behaved inmates with a microchip bracelet 
that monitors their whereabouts, and release them.   

Nathee Jitsawang, corrections department deputy director general, 
said, "The bracelets would sound an alarm if convicts tried to 
escape" from the approved perimeter around their home.   

According to Justice permanent secretary Sonchai Wongsawasdi, 
Thailand's prison capacity is 150,743 inmates; however, there 
are currently 253,370 in the prison system; the Justice department 
wants to reduce that number by 40 percent.   

The new microchip technology may be the way to achieve that goal.  

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