S.T.O.P. x RadTech: Carceral Technologies & Imprisonment Remarketed

S.T.O.P. x RadTech: Carceral Technologies & Imprisonment Remarketed

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This session, we'll examine the ways that technology recreates carceral systems beyond the borders of jails and prisons. These technologies include ankle shackles monitoring location and blood alcohol content, voice verification, and facial recognition check-ins. Often marketed as bold reforms, these technologies are violent replacements for incarceration in the criminal and immigration detention contexts. Our speakers will outline key corporate and government players in "alternatives to incarceration," the impacts these systems have on people, and the movements to stop them.

We'll be joined by James Kilgore, Bianca Tylek, as well as impacted community members to discuss their personal experiences with electronic monitoring and why we cannot accept these tools as "alternatives" to detention.

James Kilgore directs the Challenging E-Carceration project for MediaJustice. He has written widely on mass incarceration, electronic monitoring and the history of Southern Africa. He is the author of five books including the award-winning Understanding Mass Incarceration. In his community in Champaign, Illinois he is Co-Director of FirstFollowers Reentry Program. He draws his inspiration from his six years in prison, from two decades of working with African liberation movements and from his loving partner Teresa Barnes and their two sons, Lewis and Lonnie.

Bianca is the Founder and Executive Director of Worth Rises, a national criminal justice organization working to dismantle the prison industry and end the exploitation of those it targets, namely Black and Brown people. Bianca is one of the nation’s leading experts on and advocates against the prison industry. She led the first successful campaign in the country to make jail phone calls free, blocked a major merger in the prison telecom market, and denied prison profiteers millions of investment dollars.

Every year, under her leadership, Worth Rises publishes innovative research about the prison industry, including the nation’s largest dataset of corporate prison profiteers. In just three years, her work has cost the industry and its investors over a billion dollars, and saved communities tormented by incarceration millions.

Bianca is a Draper Richard Kaplan Entrepreneur and has previously been awarded fellowships by TED, Art For Justice, Equal Justice Works, Harvard University, Ford Foundation, Paul & Daisy Soros, and Education Pioneers. Before committing her career to justice, Bianca worked in financial services at Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, and Goldman Sachs. Bianca holds a B.A. from Columbia University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.