The purpose of that evaluation was to determine whether it was operationally possible to implement electronic monitoring, and what challenges we would be faced with as an organization. It was not meant to assess whether electronic monitoring was a useful tool for monitoring offenders per se. That would have to wait until we actually had a full system in place; we'd be able to determine its usefulness once we had offenders going out with EM on a regular basis.
That pilot project was there to determine how the technology works. Many of the questions that you've asked of the vendor here were the kinds of questions that we had at that time. How does it work? What are the complications? When is the signal going to disappear? That's what the purpose of that evaluation was. It wasn't meant to determine whether electronic monitoring would reduce or impact recidivism. It was very much an operational issue to see what we would need to put in place in order to actually have an effective electronic monitoring program.