Shackled, episode 5 A new, big prison with all the amenities doesn’t change the fact that it’s still a prison, and it’s still a prison when people are shackled to devices that restrict their movements and opportunities. Once you decide to see and confront the roots of incarceration in our society, you know that a technology could never do the work of fixing it.

Producer: Annie Corrigan

Shackled, episode 4 One of the criticisms of electronic monitoring in the criminal justice system is that it widens the correctional net. More people are being put on monitors who in the past would not have been given any jail time. Their family and friends are then forced to become at-home jailers.

Producer: Annie Corrigan

Shackled, episode 3 Much of the technology we’ve discussed in this podcast has its roots in logics of incarceration, but that’s never the whole story. While our systems and institutions are often monstrous, we ourselves are often not. Sometimes we create new technologies because we want to improve the human experience, and we surveil people because we care about them.

Producer: Annie Corrigan

Shackled, episode 2 We go further back into the history of monitoring to examine the lo-fi versions that were the tools of trade for colonizers and slave owners throughout North America. What does the history of surveillance tell us about how these technologies are used in the present?

Producer: Annie Corrigan

Shackled, episode 1 We build prisons out of data points. The doors of your cage are replaced by alerts and buzzers. The technology is new but the technique isn’t. In order to understand electronic monitoring in today's world, we need to understand how it began.

Producer: Annie Corrigan