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Electronic Monitoring Hotspot Map

MediaJustice’s Challenging E-Carceration project has been researching national trends and local struggles involving electronic monitoring (EM) and other punitive technologies for several years. This map highlights our findings. Hover and click on states for information on how e-carceration is being implemented there, and how people are fighting to abolish it. You can read more about EM and COVID-19 in our special bibliography, or get more information from the complete list of MediaJustice’s publications on e-carceration. We also have a list of EM companies for your reference. If there is something in your community that should be added to the map, you can let us know by filling out our map intake form.

Michigan

Videos

  • Henry Fante:Henry Fante discusses in four videos how he spent four years on a monitor after more than three decades in prison.
  • Shawn Harris:Shawn Harris talks in two videos about how EM made his house into a cell.
  • Keith Shultz:Keith Shultz shares the story of how his house burned down when he was on EM. He ended up in jail.
  • Monica Jahner: Monica Jahner, who spent over two decades in prison, talks about the challenges EM presents to her as she now runs a reentry program.

Post-Prison

Michigan has lifetime GPS for certain categories of sexually based offenses with no review process to get off monitoring. Those on lifetime GPS must pay a monthly fee. Failure to pay that fee is a felony punishable by up to two years in prison and a fine of up to $2,000.

Post-Prison/New Technologies

In 2020 the Michigan Department of Corrections upgraded their nearly 4,000 monitors from 3G to 4G at a cost of $4.6 million to taxpayers.

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