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New Terrain for Surveillance in Prisons (with Beryl Lipton, Daniel Schwarz, and Nila Bala)

Surveillance is an integral part of jails and prisons. From closed-circuit camera systems to daily counts of the population, strip searches and cell searches, incarcerated people are monitored more closely, more invasively, and more regularly than nearly any other population. Over the last few decades, organizers and policymakers have been working to shift conditions of incarceration while also reducing the footprint of the U.S. carceral system, including by implementing policies to reduce restrictions and incorporate new forms of technology into jails and prisons to improve connection to the outside world. Educational opportunities and programming in jails and prisons have been shown to have promising effects on reducing future criminal system contact and preparing people to return to their communities. But while the introduction of tablets, phone calls, and other wearable tech may have benefits including more availability of educational modules and more family contact, it also invites more opportunities for profiteering and surveillance—including using jails and prisons as sites of experimentation by corporate interests before wider disbursement of technology to law enforcement. And these kinds of technologies may come with additional policies of surveillance: for example, the introduction of e-messaging or digital mail may coincide with policies that obstruct access to physical mail. Speakers Nila Bala joined the faculty at UC Davis School of Law in 2023. Her research focuses on children’s rights and the criminal justice system, as well as emerging technologies. At King Hall, she teaches Evidence and Children and the Law. Before entering law teaching, she was the Director of Legislative Initiatives and a Senior Attorney at the Policing Project at New York University School of Law. Previously, she was the Assistant Director of Criminal Justice Policy at R Street Institute where she led R Street’s criminal justice policy to advance reforms in juvenile and economic justice. Bala previously served as an assistant public defender in Baltimore, Maryland. In addition to handling more than 1,000 cases in her tenure, she also helped lead a bail reform project to address problems in the city’s money bail system. Beryl Lipton is an Investigative Researcher at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. She focuses her work on government transparency, law enforcement surveillance technology, and other uses of technology by government actors. She has extensive experience using Freedom of Information laws and large-scale public records campaigns in her research. At EFF, Beryl supports the Atlas of Surveillance, The Foilies, The Catalog of Carceral Surveillance, among other projects. Prior to her work with EFF in 2020, she spent seven years as a projects editor at MuckRock, where she focused on prison privatization and other public-private partnerships. She is a board member for Spare Change News, the Boston area street newspaper, and contributes to Gannett New York, where she has spearheaded the collection and release of police misconduct records throughout New York state. Daniel Schwarz is a Privacy and Technology Strategist in the Policy Department of the New York Civil Liberties Union, where he focuses on Algorithmic Accountability and Smart City projects. He is an artist and technologist working on issues of privacy and surveillance. His artistic practice examines control and power structures, state authority, border politics and cartography in connection with the larger surveillance complex. He exhibited at the National Gallery of Canada; the Nevada Museum of Art; the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MassMoCA); the Baryshnikov Arts Center, New York; the Goethe Institute, Washington DC; and the Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, among many others. Daniel graduated with his M.F.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2015. From 2011 to 2012, he held an artist residency at Fabrica in Italy. Prior he studied computer science and media (BSc) at the HdM Stuttgart, Germany, and the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil. Moderated by Katy Naples-Mitchell, Program Director of the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management. This event was recorded on April 17, 2024. Links to resources mentioned during the discussion can be found on our website: https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/w...