Videos This video shows a 2014 mobilization of activists and faith-based organizations in Milwaukee who targeted GPS monitoring and parole revocations. This may be the earliest statewide protest against EM in the U.S. James Morgan speaks about being repeatedly sent back to prison for allegedly violating EM rules. EM and the Law/Post-Prison In 2018 eight …
Learn MorePretrial Ariana, who was on a pretrial electronic monitor in St. Louis, describes how the monitor disrupted her life, and how The Bail Project, a national organization dedicated to ending cash bail, raised money to pay her bond and supported her when she was released. Pretrial Eastern Missouri Alternative Sentencing Program (EMASS) has been contracted …
Learn MorePretrial/EM and the Law In May 2019, Robert Hiskett was released from jail on an electronic monitor while he awaited trial. When the EM authorities told him he had to pay $400 a month in fees for the monitor, he told the court he could not afford the payment. Judge Rick Lambert sent him back …
Learn MoreEM and the Law Min Sik Kim shot and killed a man who tried to rob his convenience store in 2016. While he was awaiting trial, Kim spent 450 days on an electronic monitor. He eventually pleaded guilt to second degree murder and received a sentence of 8.5 years. The court gave him no credit …
Learn MoreEM and the Law/Pretrial Oglalla Lakota activist Rattler (government name Michael Markus) was arrested for taking part in the protests to stop the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016. He managed to gain pretrial release, but was put on house arrest with an electronic monitor. Eventually a court ruled that the construction of …
Learn MoreCompanies/EM and the Law/Pretrial In 2018 four men filed suit in Alameda County against EM company LCA claiming that excessive user fees amounted to extortion. Each of the men had a dire personal situation, making payment of the $25 a day EM fees nearly impossible. One plaintiff, Robert Jackson, was serving 120 days in the …
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