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Many inmates in the Louisiana prison system are without GEDs (or high school diplomas), the Louisiana Weekly reported on Monday, December 27, 2010. However, thanks to a Louisiana GPS tracking program in the Louisiana prison system, many of these inmates can now obtain a GED.

Obtaining a GED would allow these Louisiana prisoners to obtain jobs they otherwise would not have access to once their prison sentences are over, thus minimizing the unemployability typically associated with former prisoners and inmates.

The campus, the Lafeyette Parish Correctional Center, focuses on rehabilitating criminals through alternative incarceration methods such as day reporting, GPS tracking, and work release and parole.

GPS tracking allows prisoners to go outside the prison to be taught, while at the same time managing the risk of allowing prisoners outside of the prison.

Rehabilitation Instead of Imprisonment

The use of GPS technology to ensure that criminals are responsibly exercising their privileges to get high school educations is a large leap forward for the rights of prisoners in America. There is a growing trend towards rehabilitation and release instead of constant imprisonment for nonviolent criminals in America, especially as America’s incarceration rate is the highest in the world.

Louisiana GPS technology is helping to enable this transition to occur.

While there are many benefits and drawbacks to rehabilitation, which we will not go into in detail here, the fact that Louisiana GPS tracking technology and Louisiana GPS systems are being utilized in order to help bring useful skills to inmates who otherwise would not have access to these skill sets.

Article Written by Greg Minton