Those instinctively opposed to incarceration as a punishment are increasingly drawn to technocorrections as a sentencing alternative.  Professor Doug Berman is a fan of technocorrections as a way to scale back on imprisonment per se, not to mention its significant costs.  Accordingly, Prof. Berman occasionally publishes a post about the virtues of technocorrections on his always interesting blog, Sentencing Law and Policy.  This is one example.

I have two problems with technocorrections.  One is that it fails to provide the punishing (and therefore deterrent) value of a prison sentence; it was my experience as an AUSA that prison is the only thing defendants really pay attention to.

The second problem with technocorrections is that they are easily defeated, sometimes with disastrous results.  From Fox News: