The Dobbs Wire: Shackles!!
What about “electronic monitoring”? More and more individuals including many with a sex offense history are required to wear the special equipment for this type of state surveillance. Anyone who runs afoul of Big Brother could be looking at prison time–that’s why James Kilgore urged calling the monitoring equipment “shackles” at a recent New York conference. Kilgore has deep knowledge and personal experience with electronic monitoring, have a look at his latest essay and learn about a new campaign, Challenging E-Carceration. –Bill Dobbs, The Dobbs Wire
Open Society Foundations | March 22, 2018
Monitoring the Use of Electronic Monitoring
By James Kilgore
Excerpts: Use of electronic monitoring devices (EM), first introduced in the 1980s, more than doubled between 2005 and 2015, according to research by the Pew Charitable Trusts. The technology has become increasingly popular as the movement to reduce mass incarceration gains momentum. It is touted as a way of bringing down prison populations while still keeping people under the watchful eye of the state.
But electronic monitoring needs to be understood for what it really is: incarceration by another name. And it’s a form of incarceration which has largely arisen without scrutiny or regulation. The surge in the use of these shackles also raises troubling questions about the surveillance state.
It is time, at long last, to try to shine some light on these “gray areas.” I have been working for the past year to help develop guidelines to try to address some of these issues—and safeguard the rights of those on the monitor. I am in good company, working with dozens of advocates and individuals who have lived under EM who are part of a wider effort, the Challenging E-Carceration campaign. MORE:
https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/monitoring-use-electronic-monitoring
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I hate to tell y’all this but just living in the US and especially Florida, makes you shackled constantly. We should all be used to it by now because no one wants to stand up to it and fight the tyranny. And it seems like nobody will.
Honestly probation is a form of incarceration. Its not to monitor how well you do. It is usually given in a plea deal and the amount is usually determined by how much prison time your not going to do. Say the prosecuting attorney wants to give you 12 years. Your attorney argues for 6 years and 5 years probation. Its a give and take process.
Being on the monitor is horrifying. It is a flawed system and the people who manufacturer them are making tons of money even though they do not work properly. I have always been appalled that FL is allowed to put monitors on some people that have only been arrested for a crime! A monitor is a type of incarceration – putting it on someone that has only been arrested is presuming guilt before quit has been proven in a court of law.
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