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Probation Officials to Demo SCRAMx Alcohol Anklets This Week at National Conference in D.C.

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, August 31st, 2010

When more than 1,000 probation and parole officers from across the U.S. gather next week in D.C. for the American Probation and Parole Association's 35th Annual Training Institute, many will be wearing -- and testing -- a technology that's taken center stage throughout the country in the last few months: the SCRAMx alcohol monitoring anklets.

Known as Secure Continuous Remote Alcohol Monitors, the technology has been in the spotlight recently, thanks to some high-profile, Hollywood offenders. But to the corrections professionals who deal with DUI and other alcohol-involved offenders every day, there is nothing trivial about the issues, which cost the U.S. more than $184...

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