Sheriffs can use SCRAMx to help ease jail overcrowding, save money, and protect the public.
As state and county budgets continue to be tight in our economy – while jail overcrowding shows no sign of easing – sheriffs are tasked with the challenge of managing more offenders with limited space and less money, while still having to maintain their focus on community safety.
SCRAMx is an effective solution that can help sheriffs manage their alcohol offender populations that are contributing to the jail overcrowding problem. Because SCRAMx lets sheriffs continuously monitor those offenders for alcohol consumption – and can now also monitor them for home confinement during specific hours of the day (like evenings when law enforcement typically deals with the bulk of its DUI/DWI and other alcohol-related cases) – this takes the burden of offender management off sheriffs while keeping the public safe.
Key objectives of the SCRAMx Sheriffs Program include:
- Effectively and remotely monitors those offenders who are not a threat to the community and can be released under electronic supervision
- Provides a bridge to help offenders re-enter the community while protecting the public
- Helps offenders get sober, be accountable for their actions, and get the help they need to break the “revolving door” pattern
- Dramatically reduces the daily cost of supervising offenders (approx. $60 for jail vs. $12 for SCRAM)
- Shifts financial responsibility for monitoring from county budgets to the offenders using the SCRAMx offender-pay model
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- Alternative to incarceration
- Offender risk levels
- Supervision strategies
- Non-compliance while on the SCRAMx device
- Compliance with more restrictive technologies
- Other situations where increased accountability and public safety are valued
