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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.

Texas

Key Highlight: Sarah Hanna gives birth while on EM

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Pretrial/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.”

Post-Sentence/Probation

In Pipe Creek, Texas, a pregnant Sarah Faye Hanna was placed on EM as a condition of her probation for a drug possession conviction. Hanna was forced to wear the monitor through childbirth, despite Texas’ ban on the shackling of women during labor. To make matters worse, a nurse at the hospital contacted Child Protective Services, who then investigated Hanna and her husband, questioning their fitness as parents because of the hospital report. Fortunately, they were able to keep the child.

Immigration

In this video, Jose Santos Garcia an immigrant from El Salvador describes life on EM under ICE.

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