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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.

Tennessee

Key Highlight: Company turns off monitors of people who didn't pay fees

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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. The state has an Electronic Monitoring Indigency Fund which is designed to kick in when people cannot afford the payments. The county had apparently not applied to be a part of this fund. The company shut the monitors off for eight hours but agreed to turn them back on once ordered to do so by a judge.

EM and the Law/Pretrial/Post-Prison

In 2018 the Tennessee state legislature passed HB 0849 which provided funds for the use of GPS monitors on individuals accused of certain “domestic assault crimes or stalking.”

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