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DESCRIPTION:Join James Kilgore and Ruth Wilson Gilmore for an urgent discussion of 
 punitive carceral technologies and Kilgore's new book: "Understanding 
 E-Carceration: Electronic Monitoring, the Surveillance State, and the 
 Future of Mass Incarceration"\n\nDate and time: Tue, January 18, 2022 @ 
 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM PST\n\nRSVP: 
 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/understanding-e-carceration-a-book-launch-tickets-238460029367\n\n\nIn 
 the last decade, as the critique of mass incarceration has grown more 
 powerful, many reformers have embraced changes that release people from 
 prisons and jails, but maintain some degree of surveillance. \n\nAs 
 educator, author, and activist James Kilgore brilliantly shows in his new 
 book, these rapidly spreading reforms largely fall under the heading of 
 “e-carceration”—a range of punitive technological interventions, from 
 ankle monitors to facial recognition apps, that deprive people of their 
 liberty, all in the name of ending mass incarceration.\n\nE-carceration can 
 block people’s access to employment, housing, healthcare, and even the 
 chance to spend time with loved ones. Many of these technologies gather 
 data that lands in corporate and government databases and may lead to 
 further punishment or the marketing of their data to Big Tech.\n\nFor this 
 launch Kilgore, himself a survivor of prison and e-carceration, will be 
 joined in conversation by Ruth Wilson Gilmore.\n\nOrder a copy of 
 Understanding E-carceration: 
 https://bookshop.org/a/1039/9781620976142\n\n***Register through Eventbrite 
 to receive a link to the video conference on the day of the event. This 
 event will also be recorded and live captioning will be 
 provided.***\n\nSpeakers:\n\nJames Kilgore is an activist, researcher, and 
 writer based in Urbana, Illinois, where he has lived since paroling from 
 prison in 2009. He is the director of the Challenging E-Carceration project 
 at MediaJustice and the co-director of FirstFollowers Reentry Program in 
 Champaign, Illinois. He is the author of five books, including 
 Understanding E-Carceration and the award-winning Understanding Mass 
 Incarceration (both from The New Press).\n\nRuth Wilson Gilmore is 
 Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences and Director of the Center for 
 Place, Culture, and Politics at the City University of New York Graduate 
 Center. Co-founder of many grassroots organizations including the 
 California Prison Moratorium Project, Critical Resistance, and the Central 
 California Environmental Justice Network, Gilmore is author of the 
 prize-winning Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in 
 Globalizing California (UC Press) and the forthcoming book Change 
 Everything (Haymarket) . Recent honors include the SUNY-Purchase College 
 Eugene V. Grant Distinguished Scholar Prize for Social and Environmental 
 Justice (2015-16); the American Studies Association Richard A Yarborough 
 Mentorship Award (2017); The Association of American Geographers Lifetime 
 Achievement Award (2020); and election to the American Academy of Arts and 
 Sciences (2021).\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/01/18/18847429.php
SUMMARY:Understanding E-Carceration: Punitive Survelliance & Carceral Technologies
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URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/01/18/18847429.php
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