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Electronic Monitoring Hotspot Map

MediaJustice’s Challenging E-Carceration project has been researching national trends and local struggles involving electronic monitoring (EM) and other punitive technologies for several years. This map highlights our findings. Hover and click on states for information on how e-carceration is being implemented there, and how people are fighting to abolish it. You can read more about EM and COVID-19 in our special bibliography, or get more information from the complete list of MediaJustice’s publications on e-carceration. We also have a list of EM companies for your reference. If there is something in your community that should be added to the map, you can let us know by filling out our map intake form.

Montana

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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 steady revenue stream into their accounts. In the past, a municipality usually had only one contracted EM provider. But in recent years, the open market has allowed “clients” to go shopping for monitors from a list of providers. This type of competition opens the door to under the table deals with judges or probation officers to be rewarded for driving clients to a particular company.

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HB449 passed into law in 2021 mandated the use of electronic monitoring for certain categories of sex and domestic violence cases for people released from custody during pretrial.

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