Congress Weighs Electronic Monitoring for Some Inmates

Published on Honduras Daily · Oct 20, 2026 · Originally reported October 17, 2026 by Once Noticias

Congress is reviewing a proposal to let low- to medium-risk inmates, along with the elderly and chronically ill, serve the rest of their sentences at home under electronic monitoring, a measure aimed at easing prison overcrowding.

An auto-translated English version isn’t available for Once Noticias, so this opens the original in Spanish. Honduras Daily curates and summarizes; the reporting is theirs.

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