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Welcome to those of you who are new to this newsletter, and welcome back to the rest of you. While our story this week on the secret Border Patrol Facebook group where agents joke about migrant deaths and post sexist memes was certainly a blockbuster, our newsroom investigates many different types of abuses of power.
Today, reporter Ava Kofman reveals the ways electronic monitoring drives defendants into debt. 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.”
Please read the article, and forward this to a friend who’s interested in criminal justice reform. If this email has been forwarded to you, you can sign up for our Big Story newsletter here.
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