Home Confinement Ankle Bracelet with Control Panel
date: label: date made
content: ca 1990
name: label: maker
content: BI Incorporated
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: The high cost of building and maintaining prisons motivated a search for alternatives. One approach adopted by state and local governments for certain offenders entailed home confinement monitored by an electronic device. This ankle bracelet communicates with the control box. Should the wearer move out of range of the box without authorization a message is dispatched to local law enforcement authorities.
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content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2014.0058.04
label: accession number
content: 2014.0058
label: catalog number
content: 2014.0058.04.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: transponder
label: Object Name
content: ankle bracelet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: bracelet (.01): 2 7/8 in x 3 7/8 in x 3 1/2 in; 7.3025 cm x 9.8425 cm x 8.89 cm
label: Measurements
content: control box (.02): 3 in x 7 1/2 in x 4 1/2 in; 7.62 cm x 19.05 cm x 11.43 cm