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Don’t Believe the Hype
Mass incarceration hasn’t ended in San Francisco, or anywhere else. To achieve that goal, governments would first have to devolve power to the communities it has harmed the most.
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Mass incarceration hasn’t ended in San Francisco, or anywhere else. To achieve that goal, governments would first have to devolve power to the communities it has harmed the most.
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.
Electronic monitoring is not an alternative to incarceration. It's an alternative form of incarceration.