Electronic Monitoring is a very big business. America is closing in on half a million people on ankle bracelets that can not merely give their precise location, but biometrics like heartbeats and even their tone of voice. At the slightest suspicion, the police can show up, without warrants, and haul ...more

I received a free ARC of this book from the publisher after winning a giveaway. It is a highly researched book on the history of electronic monitoring of people who are released from incarceration. It also gives an indepth critical analysis of mass surveillance and the privatization of data in Big T ...more

This book touches on many subjects, but its main focus is electronic monitoring and data collection. The author James Kilgore, provides a well researched history as well as current status of how big companies are using biometrics and algorithms to track people’s data and how it’s used against us sin ...more

Understanding E-Carceration by James Kilgore is an excellent primer on the broad topic of the surveillance state and how it serves to expand the number under the carceral umbrella while reducing the number in physical prison.

While a significant portion of this book, and indeed much of what I have re ...more