The Johnson County Department of Corrections (DOC) is responsible for a wide range of jobs including monitoring adult and juvenile offenders. Offenders range from low risk individuals who have committed non-violent crimes to high-risk offenders including those facing domestic violence charges. Johnson County, Kansas is the largest county by population with more than 550,000 residents. […]

The Target 25 Program was introduced in York County, Pennsylvania in 2012 to specifically combat the problem of repeat drunk drivers. Too often judges in the county were seeing repeat offenders. Drunk driving cases were stacking up with people picking up new offenses before the completion of a prior DUI case. Target 25 requires all

In 2008, San Joaquin County introduced the San Joaquin DUI Monitoring Court (SJDMC) to combat the rising issue of alcohol related crashes and DUI arrests. Prior to 2008, San Joaquin had one of the highest drunk driving recidivism rates in the State due to little or no accountability being placed on 2nd and 3rd DUI

In July 2014, the Mayor of London’s Office for Policing and Crime implemented a pilot program requiring alcohol offenders to wear the SCRAM CAM alcohol-monitoring device. The pilot program was conducted over 12 months in the boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Southwark and Sutton (South London Local Justice Area). During the 12-month pilot 113 people were

Christopher Evans Hubbart, the convicted “Pillowcase Rapist” is back in custody after failing to comply with the terms of his release. Hubbart has been living in Lake Los Angeles, a small desert community outside of Palmdale, for the past two years after spending nearly 20 years in a state mental hospital. As a condition of

Real Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Giudice was released from a federal prison earlier this year after doing nearly a year on fraud charges. Teresa and her husband, Joe, were convicted of bank and bankruptcy fraud. Teresa was released just before Christmas. As part of her release, she has been ordered to wear an

Antonio Munoz Jr., a Las Vegas Police Officer, was arrested for allegedly hitting three vehicles while driving under the influence. The accidents occurred along a stretch of the northbound I-15. Munoz was pulled over by Nevada Highway Patrol for an unrelated traffic infraction when the officer noticed damage to his vehicle. At that time the

Troy Ave was released from jail on a $500,000 bond after being charged with weapons possession and attempted murder in the shooting death of his bodyguard and friend. The fatal shooting occurred at the Irving Plaza in New York City during a T.I. Concert. The rapper is required to wear an ankle monitor as a

The jail in Vanderburgh County, Indiana faces a problem that plagues countless jails throughout the country: overcrowding. Sheriff Dave Wedding said enough was enough and introduced a plan to relieve the overburdened system. His plan would implement the use of GPS trackers for low-level offenders. This would release up to 75 offenders according to the

29-year-old Esteysi Sanchez of Oceanside was charged in the hit and run death of a pedestrian. Authorities allege that Sanchez drove under the influence and struck the pedestrian who was walking along a sidewalk. The force of the collision caused the pedestrian, Jack Ray Tenhulzen, to crash through the front windshield landing in her front