For the Public Good
While on parole in Oregon, homelessness, unemployment, and lack of services kept me in survival mode. This is not public safety.
7 posts in ‘Surveillance’
While on parole in Oregon, homelessness, unemployment, and lack of services kept me in survival mode. This is not public safety.
The lives of undocumented immigrants are very much documented—subject to the surveillance that’s endemic to contemporary life in the United States.
The rise of pretrial e-carceration in San Francisco has created a new class of people for whom freedom remains elusive.
The growth of electronic monitoring has spawned a quagmire of hidden fines and fees from which people need a way out.
The roots of e-carceration run deep, and we need to articulate digital abolition as the solution.
How e-carceration grabbed a hold of Camden is a cautionary tale for those of us who envision a future without policing.
Electronic monitoring is not an alternative to incarceration. It's an alternative form of incarceration.