An expert suggested that certain criminals should be sent to prison in their own home. When the scheme was first put forward publicly, many people 1 to it or had serious 2 about it. One very experienced social worker opposed the scheme in a television interview. When 3 to explain the basis for his opposition, he thought for a moment and4 confessed, "Well, I guess, because it's novel. That's my5 reason."
Advocates of the scheme pointed out that courts frequently sentenced first offenders to community service of some kind 6 send them to prison. The shame of having a criminal 7 was an adequate deterrent( 威慑 ), and nothing8 was achieved by sending some types of condemned people to prison.
Some critics rushed to take extreme cases. " 9 a murderer is allowed free in the community like this, what is to prevent him from 10 somebody else?" This argument 11 the fact that nobody proposed to allow condemned murderers to use the bracelet(手镯)system. One criticism put forward was that an offender could 12 his bracelet and leave it at home or give it to a friend to 13 while he himself went off to commit another crime. The14 to this was that the bracelet would be made15 the computer could immediately detect any attempts to take it off or tamper with (胡乱摆弄) it.
A most serious objection to the scheme was that the16 life of prison was intended to be part of the deterrent to crime. A prisoner who was allowed to live at home would suffer no particular 17 and thus not be deterred from repeating his crime.
No immediate 18 was taken on the proposal. It was 19 too revolutionary and needed to be examined very carefully. However, the idea was not rejected. Several governments 20 experts to investigate the scheme and make recommendations for or against it.
