E-carceration rebrands prison-style surveillance as caring correctional support

Evidence

Law scholar Chaz Arnett defines “e-carceration” as “electronic correctional surveillance, such as electronic ankle monitors … which seeks to encapsulate the outsourcing of aspects of prison into communities under the guise of carceral humanism: the repackaging and rebranding of corrections and correctional programming as caring and supportive, while still clinging to punitive culture.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1500

Categorization

• DEFINE: A precise, citable definition of e-carceration that links surveillance to punitive culture.
• XREF: Connects to Foucault’s panopticon note at 1499 and to the carceral-humanism framing in scholarship on mass surveillance.