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ANGELA SINGER
"Is a stint behind bars beneficial? Last week saw a national debate on over-crowded prisons and tagging. The question is: Who are we sending to prison and should they be there? We spoke to a Huntingdonshire woman who left prison seven weeks ago after being jailed for fraud. RITA (not her real name) now wears a tag on her leg. She is out on licence after serving a quarter of her prison sentence and is under a curfew. She is not allowed out of her house between 7pm and 7am - even into the garden. A box in the house (like the box used for wireless connections for computers) will send a signal to a control room if she leaves the house during curfew. However, the crime she committed had no link to the time of day. Rita, 44, and a mother of three, stole £44,000 from her employers to try to pay off her credit cards." [Sentencing; Treatment of Offenders]
