If I'm reading this news from CBC, this doesn't look like a program that was successful at all. It shows that there were quite a few ineffective technical aspects and malfunctions.
In fact, we had another witness last week, who I'm going to quote. He said, “This [electronic monitoring] project that they ran was so expensive that they would have been better off just to keep people locked up in jail”. This was said by Professor Gendreau, who was here last week.
He also mentioned that “the program was poorly orchestrated, contained too small a sample size, didn't properly collect data, and experienced too many technological breakdowns”. Professor Gendreau is a renowned corrections....
So would it be fair to say that this pilot project was “an unmitigated disaster”?