How electronic monitoring drives defendants into debt
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The Big Story
wed. Jul 3, 2019
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Today, reporter Ava Kofman reveals the ways electronic monitoring drives defendants into debt
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. As she writes, “Like the system of wealth-based detention they are meant to help reform, ankle monitors often place poor people in special jeopardy. Across the country, defendants who have not been convicted of a crime are put on ‘offender funded’ payment plans for monitors that sometimes cost more than their bail. And unlike bail, they don’t get the payment back, even if they’re found innocent.”
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Digital Jail: How Electronic Monitoring Drives Defendants Into Debt
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Ankle bracelets are promoted as a humane alternative to jail. But private companies charge defendants hundreds of dollars a month to wear the surveillance devices. If people can’t pay, they may end up behind bars.
by Ava Kofman
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