The Appeal

Episode 12: Why Electronic Monitoring Is Not Prison Reform


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As prison reform efforts begin to have an effect on how many people end up behind bars, a reliance on electronic monitoring increasingly serves as a pseudo-solution to keep people out of cement and steel cages––by putting them into electronic ones. Our guest, Appeal contributor Kira Lerner, talks about the moral hazards presented by this approach and why it’s important prison reform efforts expand beyond cement walls to include those composed of house arrest and monitoring technologies.

 

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