Electronic Monitoring: A Means to the Continuation of the Commodification of American Bodies that Exists under the Current American Criminal Justice System
Written by: Reginald Streater, ’18
Electronic Monitoring (EM) may enable those who would have otherwise been incarcerated to have higher levels of treatment or services for problems such as substance abuse, low education levels, and unemployment for the convicted, but policy discussions for or against the expansion of EM should be grounded in the context of what the criminal justice system has become today—a tool that some have taken advantage of to feed the prison industrial complex with predominately black and brown bodies…
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