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Jeffrey Stafford had served eight months in Florida's Palm Beach County stockade for aggravated assault when a judge offered him a choice: he could continue to do time in jail or he could go home. The catch? He would have to spend the remaining months of his sentence under electronic house arrest, with a radio transmitter attached to his ankle and a computer monitoring his movements. For Stafford, 28, it was no contest. Says he: "I had been in the stockade long enough to know I didn't ever want to go back...
...used most recently to quarantine an AIDS victim. An accused prostitute, she has been equipped with one of the new devices and was awaiting arraignment last week in the custody of her mother. "We needed to get her out of the jail because of real or imagined contagion," says Florida Judge Edward Garrison, who has championed use of the technology in his state...
...Guard is an electronic handcuff. The offender wears a wristwatch-like device that must be inserted into a verifier box in response to random telephone calls from a corrections computer. Control Data's Home Escort system and Controlled Activities' Supervisor attach at the ankle. The Supervisor system used in Florida keeps constant vigil by sending a radio signal every 35 seconds to a central computer. If the signal stops, it tells officials that the prisoner has strayed more than 150 ft. or so from his house. The computer can be programmed to allow travel to and from work, and authorities...
...other hand, Harvard also used to beat some teams whose names have become synonomous with football power. The Crimson has alltime winning records against Penn State and Boston College; moreover, Harvard has undefeated slates against the likes of Texas, Florida, Georgia, UNC and Oregon, which Harvard beat in the 1920 Rose Bowl...
...University of Florida team--ranked fifth last year--will be lead by Lady Gator Tammy Withering. She had a 30-4 mark in singles and 22--7 slate in doubles last year...