An Ankle Monitor Gives a False Taste of Freedom
“I spent 30 months on an ankle monitor. It felt crueler than jail.”
When you are living with an electronic monitor on, you are free—but you aren’t free enough. I lived with an electronic monitor uncomfortably attached to my ankle for almost 30 months across two different states. I wasn’t in jail, but I wasn’t free either. In a lot of ways, it felt like a crueler form of punishment than incarceration because I coul
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