This would require upgrading the computer system and linking it with other counties, allowing searches for outstanding warrants on offenders arrested for new crime to be conducted. The facility in Patuxent uses 50 agents to support its home detention program. Offenders wear leg bracelets that are electronically connected to the site. They are not allowed outside and agents can visit the home of an offender at any time. Voice checks via telephone are conducted frequently by a computer that determines whether the voice on the telephone matches of the offender's voice.
Any violation results in incarceration.
C. Economic Effects on the Current System Most of Baltimore City offenders have committed petty crimes. These crimes drive away businesses and deter business growth. The rate of prisoners being released on mandatory release dates far exceeds the population being paroled. Maryland has the sixth lowest growth rate in the nation for its prison population. It is not the number of people being sentenced that backs up the system but how long they are sentenced.