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Prison services have been revolutionised by a new biometric tracking system. Three years ago Britain's prisons held nearly 100,000 inmates, many of them non-violent offenders. InmateOut has almost halved that number. The system tracks offenders in the community, using mobile phones, global positioning satellite technology and voice verification. When the subject calls in, at a prearranged time, his voice is compared with the original voice-print and the call location is 'captured' by GPS. If he fails to call as agreed, if the voice does not match or if he calls from the wrong location, the police are called in. SC The pressure group Access to Animals has pledged support to schoolboy Jack Prentice, who is suing his parents for negligence. Prentice alleges that he is denied access to any pet and that his capacity to relate to living creatures has been inhibited. PF Acupuncturist Li Yang is the first practitioner of complementary therapies to be accepted as a member by the Royal College of Medicine. The college previously dismissed alternative therapies as unscientific. JB Many hotels on the Costa del Sol and the Costa Dorada are to be closed following the imposition of tourist quotas. Mauritius and Zanzibar are also closed to visitors, having reached capacity. PF