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SANTO DOMINGO.- The Santo Domingo province judicial authorities yesterday said as part of a pilot project they’ll start using on Saturday as a restraining measure 10 electronic bracelets on seven people who have committed misdemeanors and on three others charged with domestic violence.
Justice commissioner Alejandro Moscoso said the plan is to gauge the bracelet’s feasibility, which is used to monitor the accused under house arrest, health facility or within a specified territory, as well as on people under police protection.
He said the accused who could pay the bracelet’s four dollars-per-day cost will do so, and for those who can’t, the government will assume the cost.
The company Domicorp Group, with experience in electronic alarms, was chosen to provide the service, Moscoso said, as it’s the only one to provide that service in the country.
The rubber-coated bracelets, imported from the United States, are placed around the wrist or ankle. The Commissioner and the State Reform Council will cover the cost of the first 10.
Domicorp Group president Simon Santana said the device’s coverage ranges from 30 to 200 feet, and affirmed that they are inviolable, that is to say if a person tries to cut it, an alert is immediately sent to the operator station via an electronic box placed where the accused is lodged.
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But one thing, "domestic violence" is not a minor crime! we cannot allow people (men particularly) who beat their wifes and children to be given lesser sentences. This is a way for the state to sanction violence against women (VAW). People convicted of VAW should not be let off easy, else the oppression of women will continue.
The cost of four dollars a day is another way of more affluent Dominicans to "bribe" their way to an easier resolve, whatever the crime.
As for domestic violence, This is not an answer. The victim is often psycologically aswell as physically abused, a bracelet is not going to take away the real threat.