Changing the System IV—Surveillance vs Incarceration: Reducing the Prison Population Isn’t the End

Changing the System IV—Surveillance vs. Incarceration: Reducing the Prison Population Isn’t the End
San Jose, 2nd Floor
Prison reformers are gradually reversing the decades-long trend of increasing prison populations. But there’s also a new momentum to expand the use of surveillance for people on probation and parole, as states are now looking for cheaper ways to punish and monitor those suspected or convicted of breaking the law. As prison populations shrink, is the expanded criminal justice surveillance of more Americans inevitable? What types of surveillance are acceptable? And what does this mean for a criminal justice system that is marked by extraordinary, institutionalized racial bias?  

Facilitator: Ira Glasser, President, Board of Directors, Drug Policy Alliance, New York, NY

• Shahid Buttar, Executive Director, Bill of Rights Defense Committee, Northampton, MA        
• Tim Lynch, Director, Project on Criminal Justice, Cato Institute, Washington, DC 
• Mack Jenkins, Probation Chief, San Diego County, CA      
• Deborah Peterson Small, Executive Director, Break the Chains, Berkeley, CA