“This is the most extreme type of monitoring that I’ve seen,” says Pilar Weiss, founder of the National Bail Fund Network, a network of over 90 community bail and bond funds across the United States. “It’s part of a disturbing trend where deep surveillance and social control applications are used pretrial with little oversight.”

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    he chose to agree to be monitored and they chose to continue living with him” was uttered

    That got me too.

    “The alternative is that they could have rented a separate house while the breadwinner of the family was in jail. They agreed to it!”

    Utterly absurd. I also think, especially for the 14 year old, that level of surveillance is itself a form of abuse.