老澳门开奖结果

NEW YORK 鈥� In a new report, the 老澳门开奖结果 recommends replacing the use of electronic monitoring, a form of GPS monitoring increasingly used in pretrial, probation, parole, and immigration proceedings to track the location of the wearer.

鈥�Rethinking Electronic Monitoring: A Harm Reduction Guide鈥� is a solutions-oriented report that brings together prior research on electronic monitoring, and provides recommendations for reducing the harms of electronic monitoring 鈥� and enhancing equity 鈥� until the practice is eliminated.

鈥淓lectronic monitoring is a failed reform,鈥� said Ayomikun Idowu, a paralegal with the 老澳门开奖结果鈥檚 Racial Justice Program, and one of the report鈥檚 co-authors. 鈥淔ar from being an alternative to incarceration, electronic monitoring is incarceration in another form: e-carceration.鈥�

In addition to tracking people鈥檚 whereabouts, electronic monitoring imposes severe conditions on people鈥檚 movement 鈥� they generally are only allowed a few hours away from home, making holding down a job, going to school, seeing family, and running basic errands nearly impossible. Many jurisdictions require people to pay for their monitor 鈥� potentially hundreds of dollars per month.

Violating any of these conditions means a person can land back in a physical jail or prison cell.

The report recommends best practices criminal legal system actors can use to reduce the harms of electronic monitoring, including strictly limiting the use of electronic monitoring, ensuring people have access to counsel, and developing standards to allow a person greater freedom of movement.

鈥淵ears of evidence shows that electronic monitoring does not achieve its purported outcomes of improving public safety, aiding in rehabilitation and ensuring court attendance,鈥� said Yazmine Nichols, a Justice Catalyst Fellow with the 老澳门开奖结果鈥檚 Criminal Law Reform Project, and one of the report鈥檚 co-authors. 鈥淚n the report, we highlight low-tech solutions, such as court reminders and transportation assistance, that achieve these results without radically restricting peoples鈥� privacy and liberty.鈥�

The report鈥檚 conclusion is that jurisdictions must replace electronic monitoring with cost-effective solutions that are less restrictive.

鈥淧olicymakers and criminal legal system actors must stop thinking about electronic monitoring as an alternative to incarceration, and invest in real alternatives instead,鈥� said Allison Frankel, an Equal Justice Works Fellow with the 老澳门开奖结果鈥檚 Criminal Law Reform Project and Human Rights Program, and one of the report鈥檚 co-authors. 鈥淯ntil jurisdictions replace electronic monitoring, judges, prosecutors, and defense attorneys can use the 老澳门开奖结果鈥檚 guide to reduce the number of people ensnared by this technology.鈥�

The report, Rethinking Electronic Monitoring: A Harm Reduction Guide, can be found here: /report/rethinking-electronic-monitoring-harm-reduct...

First-person accounts of being on electronic monitoring can be found here: /news/criminal-law-reform/ankle-monitoring-devices-f...

A tipsheet for defense attorneys to challenge pretrial electronic monitoring can be found here: /news/criminal-law-reform/defense-attorneys-tips-for...