Mass Incarceration on the Cheap
Fiscal arguments have only led to a reconfigured carceral state—one that replaces one type of punishment for another while still harming millions.
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Fiscal arguments have only led to a reconfigured carceral state—one that replaces one type of punishment for another while still harming millions.
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.
Sex offender registries don’t make us any safer. Abolishing them would.
The roots of e-carceration run deep, and we need to articulate digital abolition as the solution.
For many years, I believed that the child welfare system could be reformed, but no more. It needs to be abolished.
Racist gang profiling on the street becomes hard data, which then feeds a sprawling detention and deportation machine with the imprimatur of law.
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.