It's possible that's an alcohol monitoring anklet. I work with a homeless population, and several of my clients have them so their PO can monitor if they've been drinking.
Forsure.... sounds so easy to fool though. Say you were using mouthwash and someone made you laugh, making you spew a little out and then it ran down your leg... it could easily trigger it.
That could happen, but those things are clamped on extremely tightly. The chance of something getting on the sensor is pretty small. Some of my clients are on antabuse, a pill that causes violent reactions when any alcohol is ingested. They can't even use hand sanitizer.
I'm glad I learned my lesson before having to deal with that here. I'm not going to lie, the breathalyzer was beyond a joke... any friend at the time would blow into it for me. Also, not going to lie... jail was interesting and beyond the psychological trauma of being in a box, is actually easy if you don't antagonize anyone. There were the groups you'd expect, the white power people, the black power people and the mexican gangs.. but 70% of everyone were rational and realized we were all stuck in the same shithole. If you could afford commissary even the food didn't blow. Beyond that it was drawing, chess, watching TV, reading or putting on shows.
I did get to see a few fights though. Watching 3-4 racists beat the absolute shit out of each other only to be beat even worse by the guards was... satisfying. Also, that shower stuff doesn't happen; nobody wants to bunk near a guy who smells like rusty iron and dung...
Probably 75% of my clients are men just getting out of prison who need a permanent address for their P.O. Some of them bring in the prison mentality and try to rule the shelter, while others just want to keep their head down and get the hell out of there. And I would say your experience is what most of the guys go through: boredom with a little bit of excitement thrown in.
I did get to see a few fights though. Watching 3-4 racists beat the absolute shit out of each other only to be beat even worse by the guards was... satisfying. Also, that shower stuff doesn't happen; nobody wants to bunk near a guy who smells like rusty iron and dung...