One way to do it is straight jail time. Another is house arrest, where they offenders are electronically monitored by a sophisticated anklet, giving the offender limited freedom of movement. The individual is restricted to work, alcohol therapy classes, no comma and home. To keep them in range, he must be able to answer a modified telephone-computer call that affirms their identity, sobriety, no comma and location. It is a whole lot better than jail, says Swafford.
People can keep their lives going.
People without a lot of money can t afford the easier punishments, says William De Juarez, a Boulder resident. Indeed, drunk driving arrests numbers show a large number of minorities. Hispanica s make up 13 percent of the population in Boulder, says Tim Johnson, from the Boulder County district attorney s office, however they constitute 24 percent of the DUI population. Nobody ever said drunk driving wasn t a problem in Boulder. And there has been progress.