A White Paper issued by the Home Affairs Ministry on Tuesday proposes to allow electronic monitoring of people convicted of minor crimes, instead of imprisonment. Minister Byron Camilleri told a press conference that electronic monitoring could be used as an alternative to short prison sentences as well as to facilitate the granting of prison leave and parole. In terms of what is being proposed, a court will be empowered to consider electronic monitoring of a convicted person ordered to stay at home instead of in prison as long as the prison sentence does not exceed one year, and the crime carried a maximum potential sentence of nor more than two years imprisonment.