[Media Coverage] WNYC: As Mass Incarceration Becomes Less Popular, The Market for 'Community-Based' Surveillance Is Booming

April 26, 2021

As the idea of mass incarceration becomes increasingly less popular, some have pointed to alternatives like diversion programs and electric monitoring.

Bianca Tylek, Worth Rises’s executive director, and Vincent Schiraldi, co-director of the Columbia University Justice Lab and former Commissioner of the New York City Department of Probation, talk with Brian Lehrer about the private companies that are creating a space for themselves with these so-called alternative monitoring models and take your calls.

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