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  • Tech innovators are busily promoting “e-carceration” devices like the ShadoWatch, an “attractive tamperproof wristwatch” that “incorporates wi-fi, GPS, and network location technology to increase location accuracy” and that “includes motion sensors, vibration alerts, messaging, heart rate, and blood pressure detection.”

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  • MaryW commented on the word e-carceration

    Many of the current reform efforts contain the seeds of the next generation of racial and social control, a system of “e-carceration” that may prove more dangerous and more difficult to challenge than the one we hope to leave behind.
    Michelle Alexander, The Newest Jim Crow, N.Y. Times (Nov. 8, 2018)
    E-Carceration is the use of technology to deprive people of their liberty. Electronic monitors combined with house arrest represent the most obvious and likely the most punitive form of E-Carceration. Typically the state, usually via the criminal legal system, enforces E-Carceration. But corporations are also getting into the act by charging fees for repressive regimes of parole and probation which often include monitors. If we don’t resist, E-Carceration may be the successor to mass incarceration as we exchange prison cells for being confined in our own homes and communities.
    What Is E-Carceration?, Challenging E-Carceration: The Voice of the Monitored (2017)

    November 14, 2018

  • hugovk commented on the word e-carceration

    e-carceration, n.

    The New York Times, 8 November 2018:

    Some insist that e-carceration is “a step in the right direction.” But where are we going with this? A growing number of scholars and activists predict that “e-gentrification” is where we’re headed as entire communities become trapped in digital prisons that keep them locked out of neighborhoods where jobs and opportunity can be found.

    December 31, 2018