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Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
San Bernardino Jail Partially Released from Court Monitoring After Paying Another $150,000 in Settlements for Detainee Deaths by On July 15, 2024, the federal court for the Central District of California removed medical care from continued monitoring of conditions at San Bernardino County jails under a 2018 consent decree. The …
“Like Being Back in Jail”: Wisconsin Returns Released Sex Offenders to Lifetime GPS Monitoring by On April 1, 2024, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) signed SB 874 into law, effectively nullifying a state Supreme Court ruling issued the previous year that directed the state Department of Corrections (DOC) to remove …
Eleventh Circuit Addresses First Amendment, Due Process Interests in Georgia Prisoner Emails by New communications technology introduced in prisons and jails has raised questions as to how prisoners’ First Amendment rights are implicated. Such concerns were addressed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on June 23, …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
How Corporations Turned Prison Tablets Into a Predatory Scheme by Tommaso Bardelli, Ruqaiyah Zarook, Derick McCarthy by Tommaso Bardelli, Ruqaiyah Zarook and Derick McCarthy “Prison iPads” became a lifeline during the pandemic. They also became a new way to squeeze money out of the incarcerated and their families. This article …
Cages Without Bars Are Widening the Net: The Explosion of Electronic Monitoring by James Kilgore, Brian Dolinar   by James Kilgore and Brian Dolinar Electronic monitoring (EM) is rapidly expanding throughout the criminal legal system. COVID-19 is partly responsible for this. The pandemic precipitated jailers’ use of monitors to reduce …
Publication • 2022
Filed under: Electronic Monitoring
FFJC-Electronic-Monitoring-Fees-Survey- Sept. 2022 Electronic Monitoring Fees A 50-State Survey of the Costs Assessed to People on E-Supervision Fines & Fees Justice Center September 2022 Electronic Monitoring Fees A 50-State Survey of the Costs Assessed to People on E-Supervision Contents 1 The Problem of Electronic Monitoring Fees 2 Electronic Monitoring Fee …
Publication • 2022
Filed under: Electronic Monitoring
Cages Without Bars-Pretrial Electronic Monitoring Across the United States-Sept. 2022 Cages Without Bars Pretrial Electronic Monitoring Across the United States September 2022 Cages Without Bars | 1 Cages Without Bars: Pretrial Electronic Monitoring Across the United States by Patrice James, James Kilgore, Gabriela Kirk, Grace Mueller, Emmett Sanders, Sarah Staudt, …
After DOJ Finds Unconstitutional Conditions for Mentally Ill Prisoners in Solitary, Massachusetts Experiments with Monitoring Gadget by Kevin Bliss, Keith Sanders by Kevin Bliss and Keith Sanders Six months after the Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a highly critical report accusing the Massachusetts Department of Corrections (MADOC) of violating the …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
My Ankle Monitor Won’t Let Me Take Out The Garbage by Eleanor Bader While we live under “house arrest” amid the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s a good time to revisit what the real thing is like. by Eleanor Bader, The Indypendent When most of us think about house arrest, ankle monitors …
Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020
Ankle Monitor Shortage at Chicago Jail Put Prisoner Releases During COVID in Limbo by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Chicago’s Cook County Jail expanded its electronic monitoring program (EM) and moved detainees to home confinement in response to COVID-19. As officials ran out of ankle monitors, at least 10 …
National Consumer Law Center - Commercialized (In)Justice - Consumer Abuses in the Bail And Corrections Industry, 2019 COMMERCIALIZED (IN)JUSTICE CONSUMER ABUSES IN THE BAIL AND CORRECTIONS INDUSTRY NCLC® March 2019 NATIONAL CONSUMER LAW CENTER ® © Copyright 2019, National Consumer Law Center, Inc. All rights reserved. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Brian …
The Prison Industrial Complex: Mapping Private Sector Players APRIL 2018 | 1 About the Corrections Accountability Project The Corrections Accountability Project (CAP) at the Urban Justice Center is a non-profit criminal justice advocacy organization committed to eliminating the influence of commercial interests on the criminal legal system and ending the …
Electronic Monitoring Becomes More Widespread, but Problems Persist by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna, Christopher Zoukis The use of wearable electronic tracking devices for defendants and people on community supervision has risen sharply over the past decade. Cash-strapped municipalities like the reduced cost, which is much lower than a prison …
Article • July 28, 2017 • from PLN August, 2017
Use of Electronic Monitoring Skyrockets by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis A study by the Pew Charitable Trusts, released on September 7, 2016, revealed that the number of accused and convicted offenders required to wear some kind of electronic monitoring device has increased nearly 140 percent in the last decade. …
Brief • June 16, 2017
Egana v. Blair's Bail Bonds, LA, Complaint and Class Status Certification, 2017 Case 2:17-cv-05899 Document 1 Filed 06/16/17 Page 1 of 37 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA RONALD EGANA, SAMANTHA EGANA, and TIFFANY BROWN, on behalf of themselves and those similarly situated, Plaintiffs, …
Article • January 12, 2017
Chain Gang 2.0: If You Can’t Afford This GPS Ankle Bracelet, You Get Thrown In Jail by Eric Markowitz by Eric Markowitz, International Business Times On a recent broiling August day, Antonio Green, an out-of-work construction worker, sat in his living room, a folder full of receipts open across his legs. …
Publication • December 30, 2016
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New Orleans Sheriff Ends Oversight of Electronic Monitoring Program by David Reutter The Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office’s (OPSO) administration of New Orleans’ Electronic Monitoring Program (EMP) was an almost “total failure,” according to the city’s Inspector General, Ed Quatrevaux, who found deficiencies in the program compromised public safety and wasted …
Article • September 21, 2016
Private Contractor Makes Millions Off GPS Trackers for Immigrants by By Eileen Townsend, Memphis Flyer Nearly 200 undocumented Memphians wear GPS tracking bracelets as a part of a controversial immigration program. Sofia Gonzales* had just gotten off a long shift at her weekend job when we met for coffee on a …
Article • August 19, 2016
New Jersey May Retroactively Impose GPS Monitoring on Sex Offender Sentenced to Community Supervision for Life by On January 19, 2016, a New Jersey court of appeals held that it was not a violation of the New Jersey or federal ex post facto clauses to retroactively impose GPS monitoring for …
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