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Home detention
Extracted from the Wikipedia article House arrest.
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Home detention is an alternative to imprisonment; its goals are both to reduce recidivism and decrease the number of prisoners, thereby saving money for states and other jurisdictions. It is a corrective to mandatory sentencing laws that greatly increased the incarceration rates in the United States. It allows eligible offenders to retain or seek employment, maintain family relationships and responsibilities, and attend rehabilitative programs that contribute toward addressing the causes of their offending.