Fixing the Parole System

[...] putting that insight into practice requires more capacity for detecting crime and faster-acting justice mechanisms than the nation currently has or is likely to acquire.\n For example, insofar as it becomes technically feasible to monitor a probationer's alcohol use (perhaps with a skin patch that detects alcohol in perspiration) or location (with cell-phone or global positioning system technology, or a combination of the two), then a HOPE-style program could require abstinence from alcohol and observance of time-and-place rules (such as a curfew, being at work during work hours, avoiding drug-dealing areas, or obeying "stay-away" orders). [...] Hawaii had some important advantages when launching its HOPE program: a collegial relationship across state agencies, the absence (despite the state's high overall crime rate) of large crime-blighted or gang-dominated neighborhoods, and the extraordinary public management skill of the innovating judge in securing the cooperation of the many key players whose buy-in was essential to the successful implementation of swift and certain sanctions.