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Electronic monitoring is not an alternative to incarceration ....

...it is an alternative form of incarceration.

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Challenging E-Carceration aims to change the conversation and policy concerning electronic monitoring and surveillance in the criminal legal and crimmigration systems. In recent years mass incarceration has come under considerable criticism and been the focus of political mobilization from many quarters. But what is the alternative?

Will we merely exchange concrete and steel cages for devices like electronic monitors which convert homes in poor communities into jails?

Will we allow the state and corporations to use technology to restrict our movement and record massive amounts of information about our lives?

Challenging E-Carceration will use research, media, policy development and popular mobilization to limit and ultimately contribute to the abolition of electronic monitors and all forms of e-carceration.  In cases where such devices are used, we support efforts to reduce the harm done by this technology, including the harm done to loved ones and communities.

This project will:

  • Conduct research that centers the voices of people who have been on monitors and their loved ones

  • Highlight practices and policies that respect the rights of those on electronic monitors

  • Uncover and resist the ways in which electronic monitors mete out special punishment to people of color and track Black bodies

  • Promote policies and campaigns  that support individual and community development rather than punishment

Challenging E-Carceration 

 

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Challenging E-Carceration aims to change the conversation and policy concerning electronic monitoring and surveillance in the criminal legal and crimmigration systems and beyond.

Understanding E-Carceration:
          by James Kilgore
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E-carceration can block people’s access to employment, housing, healthcare, and even the chance to spend time with loved ones. Many of these technologies gather data that lands in corporate and government databases and may lead to further punishment or the marketing of their data to Big Tech.

 

This riveting primer on the world of techno-punishment comes from the author of the National Book Award–winning Understanding Mass Incarceration. Kilgore, a survivor of prison and e-carceration, captures the breadth and complexity of these technologies and offers inspiring ideas on how to resist.

To order the book, go here

 

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