The Nation - News from Feb. 17, 1987

Electronic monitors used to confine parolees to home could be used to quarantine AIDS patients and prevent brain-impaired people from getting lost, a manufacturer of the devices said. The monitors let law enforcement officials know when inmates paroled on condition that they stay home have strayed farther than allowed. The manufacturer, in Chicago for a meeting of the American Assn. for the Advancement of Science, said at a symposium on new uses of technology to fight crime that the devices could be used to confine AIDS patients or Alzheimer’s disease victims but that civil liberties groups might object.