Companies/Pretrial In 2019 Tennessee Recovery & Monitoring (TRM) turned off the ankle monitors of 20 clients, claiming the individuals owed them fees totaling $31,000. According to EM program regulations, if people fall behind on payments, the company is supposed to have them surrendered to the court, which would then decide what to do with them. …
Learn MoreVideos-Post Prison Darrell Cannon, Chris Harrison, who both spent time on EM after long spells in Illinois prisons, and Annette Taylor, who had several family members on EM, tell their stories here. Videos-Pretrial The Coalition to End Money Bond and the Chicago Community Bond Fund have produced a number of videos where many people, including …
Learn MorePretrial New Orleans has a long and complicated history with electronic monitoring providers. The city’s sheriff was running the EM program in 2016 when he suddenly halted the operation, arguing that he was not receiving enough money to cover costs. The program shut down for a few weeks, then was handed over to A2i, a …
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/Companies In Houston in 2019, local EM company Guarding Public Safety repossessed the ankle monitor of a person charged in a murder case, leaving him unmonitored for two weeks. The company took off the monitor because the man was unable to pay the monitor fees. He ended up back in jail for being “at large.” …
Learn MorePretrial/History The first electronic monitor was used in the court of Judge Jack Love on February 12, 1984 in Albuquerque. This somewhat romanticized history of the invention of the electronic monitor, written by its inventor, Robert Gable, provides some historical background on the device and some pics of early ankle monitors.
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/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/Pretrial Billings, Montana has an open marketplace for pretrial electronic monitoring with exorbitant fees in many instances. Three companies Freidel LLC ($10 a day plus $500 set up fee); Community Solutions ($15 a day) and Alternatives, Inc. ($9 a day) are combining fees from electronic monitoring with other court fees and fines to ensure a …
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