Plans for 1,000 biometric bracelets in US county jail fall apart

Biometric bracelets intended for prisoners in Atlanta, Ga., jails are being removed after officials said few of them were distributed or active in county jails as intended.

Fulton County commissioners, who approved a $2.1 million emergency request to deploy the biometric monitoring hardware and software, thought that the system would be more or less deployed in two jails by now. It has not been.

The wristbands are primarily expected to monitor where prisoners are congregating and watching for signs of …

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