Electronic Monitoring (EM) is rapidly increasing in the United States. While EM is marketed as an “evidence-based” alternative to incarceration, it’s actually an expansion of incarceration and surveillance. EM devices, like ankle shackles (ankle monitors or bracelets), restrict an individual’s liberty, limit their privacy, disrupt family relationships, and may jeopardize their financial security. We need your help to mobilize against EM in local communities across the country!

Join MediaJustice in launching a new digital organizing hub, #UnshacklingFreedom,
to fight the harmful use of EM in the United States on April 28th at 6:30pm EST.

The #UnshacklingFreedom Toolkit is a digital home to everything you need to design, organize, launch, and win a campaign to ban or block Electronic Monitoring in YOUR community. With background information and a step-by-step campaign design guide, this toolkit is the ideal resource to mount an effective challenge to e-carceration.

This launch event is an opportunity to make connections regionally and nationally in our fight against ankle shackles. Participants will leave the space with a deeper understanding of EM and e-carceration, connections with other organizers, and new avenues to join our fight against electronic monitoring!

Guest speakers include:
James Kilgore, author of Understanding E-Carceration
Emmet Sanders, Project Researcher for Challenging E-Carceration
Briana Payton of the Chicago Community Bail Fund
Ambrose Brooks S of Dignity and Power Now
Julie Mao of Just Futures Law