Surveillance and the Carceral State, created by the Community Organizations Team (Gabrielle French, Allie Goodman, Chloe Carlson, Matt Lassiter), is the first research report in the “Documenting and Confronting the Carceral State” series. These reports draw from the Carceral State Project’s 2018-2019 Symposium Series by combining video excerpts of the panelists with contextual material.
Part 2, Surveillance and the Carceral State, explores the criminalization and surveillance of vulnerable and marginalized communities through 20 video clips of firsthand accounts, as described by panelists in the symposium series. State surveillance begins before the formal processes of arrest and incarceration and “doesn’t stop after you get home” from prison, as one panelist observed. Topics include electronic monitoring, the sex offender registry, barriers to reentry, and much more.
