The pilot project had a number of objectives that provided us with some important information. The primary purpose of the electronic monitoring pilot project was to test the capacity to use that technology, first and foremost.
We needed to test whether or not we could have the capacity to receive information from these devices and to utilize that information to have a better understanding of the offender, in terms of how they were doing under supervision.
That objective was fully met by the piloting of that. Prior to that pilot, the only experience we had was in our area. In our first phase, we asked 15 staff to wear the bracelets in our national headquarters and out in the field. We tested them out that way. That was our experience in our first phase.
In our second phase, we did it with offenders who voluntarily participated and were already out under community supervision. Then we expanded that to those who were about to be released but had conditions of residency or curfew restrictions, and they did so voluntarily.