That, as you might have guessed, has lead some to question the Scottish government's practice of relying on electronic tags to monitor early release offenders, but the government seems to be sticking to its guns, with a spokesman saying that "a breach does not necessarily equate to reoffending, " although, as the Scotsman reports, it did recently scrap a plan to tag suspects who were allowed out on bail.
ENGADGET: Scots lose sight of early release offenders due to faulty electronic tags