https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kbbey/prison-phone-companies-are-recording-... Prison Phone Companies Are Recording Attorney-Client Calls Across the US Lawyers say their conversations with incarcerated people are being recorded and analyzed by private companies in at least nine US states. But their harm doesn't stop at fleecing incarcerated people, formerly incarcerated people, and their families. Securus also has some invasive and even illegal surveillance practices, like creating voiceprint databases and recording attorney-client calls. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/incarcerated-home-rise-ankle-monitors... Electronic monitoring is not an alt to incarceration, it's e-carceration and expanding the system. As advocate @waazn1 once told me, "electronic monitors turn your home into a cell and your family into guards." Also, EM often comes with a fee. Incarcerated at home: The rise of ankle monitors and house arrest during the pandemic Researchers who study recidivism say the surveillance devices hurt people trying to get their life on track after prison and that there’s no evidence the technology is rehabilitative. Private prison corps are not subject to open records laws, such as the Freedom of Information Act, like public correctional agencies. Accordingly, their actions, communications, and subcontracts are shielded from public oversight. Companies are constantly promising to cover the world in sensors as a utopian project but it’s actually a threat.