#Electronic Monitoring for House Arrest

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Electronic Monitoring of Offenders

Dive into the complex world of electronic monitoring for offenders. Our latest article unpacks the legal implications, privacy concerns, and ethical debates surrounding the use of monitoring devices in the justice system. Discover how technology balances public safety with individual rights at Laipac.com

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...not guilty of felony hate crime charges, but guilty of third-degree malicious mischief -- a crime that is a gross misdemeanor with a maximum penalty of 364 days in county jail.

Frank John Bagley, inmate 395764

Cabriel R Smith-Nilsen, inmate 395763

Matthew A Clement, inmate 365991

Lewis County Washington Jail inmates, incarceration intake October 2024, sentenced to 364 days

In October 2024, a Lewis County (Washington) Superior Court judge sentenced the three men convicted by a jury for defacing the “Friendship Fence” in Chehalis earlier in the year to 364 days in county jail: the maximum sentence allotted for their cases.

“This crime cries out for the maximum. It cries out for a statement that this will not be tolerated,” Judge J. Andrew Toynbee said during a sentencing hearing for the three defendants, Frank John B. Bagley II, 40, of Seattle, Matthew A. Clement, 33, of Centralia, and Gabriel R. Smith-Nilsen, 25, of Driggs, Idaho, on Friday, Oct. 4.

Bagley, Clement and Smith-Nilsen were arrested in Centralia early in the morning on Sunday, Feb. 25, after a neighbor saw them defacing the Friendship Fence — a rainbow-colored fence — in Chehalis and followed them as they fled in a dark-colored Subaru station wagon.

The Chehalis Police Department received a call at 12:08 a.m. on Sunday, Feb. 25, from the neighbor, Norman Lynn, reporting three subjects “wearing all black and ski masks” were spray painting the Friendship Fence in the 600 block of Northwest Pennsylvania Avenue.

They hid behind the house before fleeing on foot, getting into a dark-colored station wagon and fleeing northbound on Interstate 5 into Centralia. Officers with the Centralia Police Department were able to stop the suspects’ vehicle as they were trying to get onto southbound I-5 at 12:38 a.m. on Feb. 25, according to police call logs. 

Officers found a stencil “covered in multicolored paint and had the words ‘Patriotfront’ as the cutout for the sign,” as well as a blue bag containing “several pieces of White Lives Matter and … literature and propaganda stickers” inside the vehicle the suspects were in when Centralia police arrested them on Feb. 25.

A Lewis County jury ruled earlier that Bagley, Clement and Smith-Nilsen were not guilty of felony hate crime charges, but were guilty of third-degree malicious mischief.

The crime is a gross misdemeanor with a maximum penalty of 364 days in prison.

“This was undoubtedly a contentious case,” defense attorney Shane O’Rourke, representing Clement, said Monday.

While the jury found that the defendants did not target a specific person’s sexual orientation or gender identity, which would be required for a hate crime conviction, O’Rourke said Friday, “I think the evidence did suggest it was an attack on the social commentary and political messaging of the fence.”

O’Rourke said the fence was “unquestionably a symbol and monument” in the community, but asked the court “would we all be engaged in the same conversation” if “liberals” had vandalized a hypothetical Confederate or Trump monument in the community?

O’Rourke and fellow defense attorneys Joseph Enbody and Jakob McGhie, who represented Bagley and Smith-Nilsen, respectively, argued Friday in favor of a suspended sentence or an electronic home monitoring option for the defendants, saying such a sentence would be consistent with what they’ve seen the court sentence for third-degree malicious mischief cases in which the defendants have little to no prior criminal history.

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Affaire Adèle Haenel : reconnu coupable d'agressions sexuelles, Christophe Ruggia condamné à deux ans de prison ferme

by Pauline Weiss - Marie Claire, February 3, 2025

Six years after actress Adèle Haenel's revelations in “Mediapart”, the trial of director Christophe Ruggia, whom she accused of sexual assault when she was a minor, took place last December.  On February 3, 2025, the Paris Correctional Court sentenced him to four years' imprisonment, two of which will be served under house arrest with an electronic bracelet.

In 2019, actress Adèle Haenel helped launch the #MeToo of French cinema with her powerful statement.  In a lengthy investigation by Mediapart, the Portrait de la jeune fille en feu actress accused director Christophe Ruggia of sexually assaulting her between 2001 and 2004, when she was between 12 and 15 years old.  He denied the allegations.

On December 9 and 10, 2024, the actress confronted the filmmaker, who was on trial at the Paris Criminal Court for aggravated sexual assault.

The public prosecutor's office delivered its verdict at 1:30 pm on Monday, February 3, 2025.   Christophe Ruggia was found guilty of sexual assault and given a four-year sentence, two of them under house arrest with electronic monitoring, as reported by AFP and Le Monde.

In addition, Adèle Haenel will receive €15,000 in compensation and €20,000 for the years of psychological therapy she has undergone.

In December, the public prosecutor had requested five years' imprisonment, including three years' probation, with conditional suspension.  According to Franceinfo, Fanny Colin, Christophe Ruggia's lawyer, has announced that her client intends to appeal his conviction.

Adèle Haenel left the courtroom to applause.  “Thank you all for coming, for advancing human rights.  Your presence, making sure we don't give up.  Thank you very much.  We are together,” she called out to the crowd, reports Brut.

Facing Christophe Ruggia last December, Adèle Haenel appeared determined.  “#MeToo was going to happen in France, and it landed on me,” the 60-year-old said in his defense.  In his testimony, he asserted on the stand that the actress had “an overwhelming sensuality” when she was 12 years old.  Regarding her statement in 2019, he felt that Adèle Haenel had become “radicalized” in recent years, reported Marie Claire, who was present at the event.

Interviewed in turn, Adèle Haenel detailed the Saturday afternoons she spent at his house, throughout the shooting of her first film, Les Diables (2002) and then afterward.  Asked why she returned every week, she replied: “He normalized the situation, and I felt obliged to go.  Without him, I'd fall back into a kind of nothingness.  I owed him, I felt indebted.”

After admitting that she had long “thought that the courts would never be interested in [her] story”, she finally showed her annoyance at Christophe Ruggia, who denied the facts up to the end, telling the director to “shut the hell up!”  The director hasn't made a film since Dans la tourmente (2011).

[Please don’t repost this anywhere, in part or in whole.  Feel free to reblog, or at least cite your source and provide a link back here.  Asking permission would be nice in an ideal world, but I’m a realist – I know far too well how easy it is to appropriate stuff on Tumblr.  I would be the first to admit that my translations are not perfect – there are some words and phrases that simply do not drop neatly into an equivalent in English, and I constantly fix typos and make changes or corrections in older posts – but they do take a lot of work and time.  Thanks for understanding. - C.]

My translation of Mediapart's coverage of day 1 of the trial

And day 2

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[“Rehabilitation is meant to remake the person into a law-abiding citizen. Incapacitation removes the person from society so that they cannot do additional harm. Deterrence prevents people who might offend from engaging in harm because, having seen what the punishment has been or will be, they understand the potential negative consequences of their actions. And retribution, the oldest moral underpinning for punishment, is intended to ensure that those who commit crimes receive the punishment they deserve. Punishment settles the score between the person who commits a crime, their victim, and the wider society. Punishing survivors of gender-based violence is difficult to justify using these theories. In an era in which prisons barely meet people’s basic human needs and substantive programming is scarce, few argue that punishment rehabilitates. Nonetheless, in sentencing eighty-year-old Lavetta Langdon for the murder of her husband after fifty years of torture and despite his recognition that she had “lived in hell,” Judge David Urbom sentenced Langdon to eight to ten years’ imprisonment to “rehabilitate” her.

For criminalized survivors, relying on rehabilitation is particularly inapt. Crimes committed by criminalized survivors are often specific to their victimization. The problem is not with the person who commits the crime, but with the harm they are experiencing. Justifying punishment using rehabilitation reinforces outdated stereotypes suggesting that gender-based violence is linked to some deficiency or infirmity in the victim. Rehabilitation also assumes that the person convicted of a crime does not appreciate that their actions were problematic; rehabilitation is meant to change the person’s underlying values. Criminalized survivors understand that they may be technically guilty of crimes. What they dispute is the failure to recognize the context for those crimes and to apply the law—and the values underlying the law—appropriately. As one woman convicted of killing her husband explained, “I’m not asking to be found not guilty, because I am guilty, I took his life, I did it. . . . I am definitely guilty of taking his life, I mean, if I was found not guilty, they’d have to look for who did it, right, I mean someone’s got to be guilty. And I certainly take responsibility for what I did, I have no problem with that, but I certainly don’t deserve 18 to 20 years for it.”5 Faced with the same situation again, many would be forced to make the same choice. Incapacitation is generally linked with incarceration (although house arrest and electronic monitoring are forms of incapacitation) and assumes that because people have committed crimes in the past, they are likely to do so again unless removed from society. But many criminalized survivors have never offended previously, and most (including those who have been convicted of serious violent crimes) will not reoffend. Incapacitation is therefore unlikely to prevent offenses by these people.

What incapacitation does do is deprive society of the many other functions performed by these people—as parents, caregivers, workers, and members of communities—while at the same time imposing the costs of their incarceration on taxpayers. Deterrence is no more persuasive. The evidence for the deterrent value of punishment is inconclusive, particularly when the sentence involves incarceration. Sentencing people convicted of violent crimes to prison may have no greater impact on recidivism after release than sentencing someone to probation.6 Incarceration may instead spur offending by exacerbating preexisting mental health conditions or trauma and making it difficult for people to find legal employment after their release.7 For the criminalized survivor being punished, deterrence is largely unnecessary: that person is unlikely to find themself in the same situation again. Other survivors, perceiving immediate danger to themselves or their children and no other clear or effective options, are unlikely to be deterred from acting by the abstract threat of punishment or the knowledge that another person has been punished for taking similar action. Which leaves retribution. Retribution motivated the judge in the case of Barbara Jean Gilbert, who killed her husband after fifteen years of abuse. The judge handed down the maximum sentence of incarceration—even though the probation department asked for probation, citing her “exemplary” conduct, and prosecutors did not ask for prison time. The judge explained his decision: “You have snuffed out a life. . . . Therefore the court has the right to inflict pain and deprivation on you.” But what does a criminalized survivor deserve, particularly when the victim of the crime for which the person is being punished has inflicted immeasurable damage on that person? Retributivists stress that the punishment must be proportionate to the crime. To determine proportionality, context is essential. A proportionate response should factor in the harm already suffered by the person being punished. As Darcy K. WarBonnett has observed, prior to entering prison she was already serving a life sentence by virtue of having been abused by her partner. “We are incarcerated not AS punishment, but evidently for MORE punishment.”

Retributivists also argue that punishment restores moral balance. That balance is necessarily different, however, when the victim of a crime has abused the person convicted of that crime. The moral balance has already shifted away from the victim because of their earlier actions. Even if none of these rationales for punishment is satisfied, society may still seek to punish those who commit crimes. Punishment reinforces the value of and respect due community norms. Directing hostile feelings toward those who have committed crimes allows members of society to vent their frustrations and feel in control, while at the same time believing they are right. To the extent that punishment fulfills those needs, “punishment pleases.” The need to assert community norms and control motivates community members to call for harsh punishment of criminalized survivors. As one newspaper columnist wrote after Dixie Shanahan was sentenced: “Open a loophole for one woman to kill an abusive spouse and pretty soon you’ve got dozens of dead husbands.”]

leigh goodmark, from imperfect victims: criminalized survivors and the promises of abolition feminism, 2023

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Bolsonaro’s bid to regain Brazil’s presidency may end in prison

Brazilian police have accused some of his backers of involvement not just in a coup, but in an assassination plot

On November 21st Brazilian police formally accused Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s former far-right president, and 36 others of attempting to prevent Brazil’s newly elected government from taking office. It was the third time Brazil’s federal police recommended criminal charges against the ex-president, but these accusations are by far the most serious. They sharply increase the likelihood that Mr Bolsonaro will spend time in jail. The former president denies all charges and claims he is being politically persecuted.

The police have been investigating Mr Bolsonaro for two years over attempts to cling to power after his electoral defeat in October 2022. But the case has become more urgent in recent weeks. On November 13th a man who had previously been affiliated with Mr Bolsonaro’s political party blew himself up in a failed attack on Brazil’s Supreme Court. On November 19th federal police arrested four members of an elite army unit and one police officer for allegedly plotting to kill Lula, his vice-president, Geraldo Alckmin, and Alexandre de Moraes, a judge on the Supreme Court, days before Lula’s inauguration. Mr Moraes has overseen investigations into Mr Bolsonaro for years and has become a target of bolsonarista zealots.

This is not how Mr Bolsonaro expected his November to pan out. His misleadingly named Liberal Party and other conservative outfits won big in Brazil’s local elections in October. On October 22nd he triumphantly proclaimed that he would be the candidate of the right in 2026, when Brazil is scheduled to hold its next presidential elections. More good news arrived in the form of the re-election of Mr Bolsonaro’s idol, Donald Trump, as  president of the United States on November 5th. Mr Bolsonaro apparently saw this as a harbinger of his own return to power. “May Trump’s victory inspire Brazil to follow the same path,” he posted on X.

Not likely, it seems, if Mr Bolsonaro is part of that path. Brazil’s top federal prosecutor will now review the 884-page police report which alleges that Mr Bolsonaro was involved in an attempted coup, and decide whether to pursue charges. If the case goes ahead, Mr Bolsonaro could be tried by the Supreme Court early next year. The crimes under investigation carry a combined maximum prison sentence of 28 years.

A different, 221-page police report, which The Economist has reviewed, alleges that after Mr Bolsonaro’s electoral defeat, a plan was hatched to murder Lula and the other two. According to the report, police obtained much of the material relating to the plot from electronic devices belonging to Mauro Cid, Mr Bolsonaro’s personal aide, and General Mário Fernandes, who was a deputy minister in the Bolsonaro government. The report claims that Mr Fernandes used a printer inside the presidential palace to print an outline of the assassination plot, including information about the weapons to be used. The report further alleges that Mr Cid and others started monitoring Lula and Mr Moraes’ movements after a meeting on November 12th, 2022 at the house of Walter Braga Netto, Mr Bolsonaro’s running-mate in the 2022 election. The report says the police found documents owned by Mr Fernandes in which he outlined how a “crisis cabinet”, co-led by Mr Braga Netto, was to be set up after the assassinations had been carried out.

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Aug. 13 (UPI) -- A former Cornell University student has been sentenced to nearly two years behind federal bars for posting threats online targeting his school's Jewish community.

Patrick Dai, 22, of Pittsford, N.Y., was handed the 21-month sentence Monday, four months after he pled guilty in April to posting threats to kill or injure another person using interstate communications.

Dai was a junior at Cornell in late October when he posted threatening messages to the Cornell section of an online discussion forum.

Excerpts of the posts reproduced in statements from the Justice Department show he threatened to "shoot up" 104 West!, Cornell's kosher dining room that is located next to the Center for Jewish Living facility, as well as "bomb jewish house."

He also threatened to bring an assault rifle to campus to "shoot all you pig jews," according to federal prosecutors, who added that he vowed to stab and slit the throat of any Jewish man he saw at Cornell and rape and throw off a cliff any Jewish woman. Jewish babies, he said, according to prosecutors, would be beheaded.

Dai was quickly identified after the posts were published online and he has remained at the Broome County Jail since his arrest.

"Every student has the right to pursue their education without fear of violence based on who they are, how they look, where they are from or how they worship. Anti-Semitic threats of violence, like the defendant's vicious and graphic threats here, violate that right," Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division said Monday in a statement.

United States Attorney Carla Freedman said Dai's actions "terrorized" the Cornell campus for days "and shattered the community's sense of safety."

The threats were communicated less than a month after Hamas launched a bloody assault on Israel that killed some 1,200 Israelis and ignited the ongoing war between the Iran-backed militia and the Middle Eastern country.

Lisa Peebles, a federal public defender and Dia's legal representative, told The New York Times in an email that her client is not anti-Semitic and that the posts had been a misguided effort to "expose the atrocities of Hamas and garner sympathy for the Jewish community."

She explained that Dia is autistic and can function like a child between the ages of 5 and 10.

"He is deeply sorry for the hurt he caused," Peebles said, The Times reported. She also suggested that the crime is what led to his autism diagnosis.

Dia was also sentenced Monday to three years' post-incarceration supervised release that is to include no contact with his former university and mental health treatment. Other restrictions imposed as part of the sentence include monitoring of his electronic devices and use of the Internet.

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Singapore: Jailed ex-minister Iswaran moved to house arrest | masr356.com

In Singapore, inmates may be transferred to home detention after being assessed on factors such as their conduct in prison and response to rehabilitation. Authorities said Iswaran was found to be “of low risk of re-offending, did not commit any institutional offence in prison, and has strong family support”. While in home detention he will be required to wear an electronic monitoring tag and…

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Looked into it a bit, the cops justified this by saying he had posted more than just memes, producing several messages to the effect of "I want to shoot up the school". However, those messages were not made on an account publicly tied to the kid, and he and his family deny the second account is his. The cops have refused to offer any proof the second account was his.

So basically, to make this legally stick or, more likely, make boot licking conservatives excuse all their actions no matter how vile, they pretended a second account was also his in order to be able to have something actionable.

As of now he's been released with an electronic monitor l, under something approximating house arrest, and legally barred from using the internet.

Ron DeSantis just kidnapped a 13-year old boy.

Earlier this evening, at around 7 PM CT U.S., Rebekah Jones (notably one of DeSantis’ biggest political enemies right now) underwent a raid on her home by state police.

Guns were pointed in the face of her 13-year old son, Jack. They arrested him under the charges of digital terrorism and “on state orders.”

They are refusing to let him go home and they are refusing to let Jones see him.

These are her screenshots recounting the incident from earlier tonight. They were taken at 10:23 PM CT U.S.

Reblog. I don’t care who you are, reblog this. We have to make sure that this doesn’t get buried – it’s already happening.

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The Growing Electronic Offender Monitoring Solutions Market: Trends, Drivers, and Future Outlook

Market Overview

The Electronic Offender Monitoring Solutions market is projected to grow from USD 2.02 billion in 2024 to USD 2.96 billion by 2029, reflecting a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.91% during the forecast period (2024-2029).

Electronic Offender Monitoring Solutions (EOMS) encompass a range of technologies used to track and monitor individuals who are serving their sentences outside of prison, typically under parole, probation, or house arrest. These solutions use GPS, RFID, and electronic bracelets or ankle tags to provide real-time tracking and location data of offenders. The technology is designed to help authorities ensure that individuals comply with court-mandated conditions and rules while also safeguarding the community.

Some of the most common solutions include:

GPS Tracking: Real-time location tracking, ensuring offenders remain within predefined geographic areas or curfews.

Alcohol Monitoring: Monitoring devices that detect alcohol consumption, often used for offenders with alcohol-related offenses.

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID): Used for proximity detection, such as ensuring offenders are at their homes or specific locations at designated times.

Remote Monitoring: Technologies allowing officers or authorities to track offenders remotely, reducing the need for constant physical monitoring.

Key Drivers of Market Growth

Increasing Demand for Cost-Effective Alternatives to Incarceration: One of the primary factors driving the growth of electronic offender monitoring solutions is the need for cost-effective alternatives to traditional incarceration. Maintaining prisons and correctional facilities is costly, and electronic monitoring provides a more affordable solution for monitoring offenders in the community. This is particularly relevant as governments face budget constraints while striving to reduce prison overcrowding.

Government and Legal Reforms: Many countries are moving toward sentencing reforms that focus on rehabilitation and reducing recidivism. Electronic monitoring enables offenders to continue their rehabilitation process in the community, allowing them to maintain family ties, employment, and other social connections. The widespread acceptance of such technologies, along with the implementation of laws encouraging non-incarceration penalties, is boosting the market.

Technological Advancements: The growing capabilities of monitoring technologies are also contributing to the market’s expansion. Innovations in GPS tracking, enhanced data analytics, and real-time reporting are making electronic monitoring solutions more reliable and efficient. Improved battery life, waterproof features, and less intrusive devices are also increasing the adoption of these solutions, making them more convenient and acceptable for both authorities and offenders.

Reducing Recidivism: Studies have shown that electronic offender monitoring can play a significant role in reducing recidivism. By monitoring offenders in real time, authorities can intervene early when potential violations or crimes are detected, reducing the likelihood of repeat offenses. This contributes to overall public safety and helps offenders stay on the path to reintegration into society.

Increased Focus on Rehabilitation and Reintegration: Modern justice systems increasingly focus on rehabilitation over punishment, which creates a fertile ground for electronic monitoring solutions. Programs designed to reintegrate offenders back into society are enhanced by the use of these technologies, which enable constant oversight while offering flexibility to offenders.

Regional Insights: North America and Europe Lead the Way

In terms of regional market performance, North America and Europe are expected to lead the industry due to high adoption rates, strong infrastructure, and regulatory support. The United States, in particular, has been at the forefront of adopting electronic offender monitoring technologies, with widespread use in parole and probation systems.

In Europe, countries like the UK, Germany, and the Netherlands have implemented electronic monitoring as part of broader criminal justice reforms. The region’s strong focus on human rights, rehabilitation, and reducing prison overcrowding has made electronic monitoring a key component of the justice system.

Asia-Pacific is also witnessing rapid growth in the electronic offender monitoring market, driven by improving criminal justice systems, rising investments in public safety technologies, and the adoption of alternative sentencing programs in countries like India, China, and Japan.

Challenges in the Electronic Offender Monitoring Solutions Market

Despite the significant growth prospects, there are challenges within the industry. Concerns about privacy, data security, and the potential for misuse of information are primary barriers. The effectiveness of electronic monitoring systems can also be compromised by issues such as device tampering, interference, or geographical restrictions in remote areas where GPS signals are weak.

Additionally, public perception of these technologies can vary, with some individuals questioning the ethics of tracking offenders or feeling uncomfortable with the data collection involved. This requires careful consideration and regulatory oversight to balance the need for public safety with individual rights.

The Future of the Electronic Offender Monitoring Solutions Industry

The future of the electronic offender monitoring solutions market is bright, with increasing investments in technology and expanding global adoption. The market is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of [insert projected CAGR based on market research], as more governments and law enforcement agencies turn to these technologies to address overcrowding in prisons, reduce crime rates, and offer offenders a chance to reintegrate into society.

Key trends to watch include:

Integration with AI and Machine Learning: The use of artificial intelligence to predict behavior and track offenders’ activities more effectively.

Blockchain for Data Security: Implementing blockchain technology to ensure transparency, accuracy, and security of monitoring data.

Increased Use of Wearables: The development of more advanced and comfortable wearable devices that ensure higher compliance rates among offenders.

Conclusion

The electronic offender monitoring solutions industry is undergoing rapid growth as technological advancements, cost considerations, and a global focus on rehabilitation drive demand. As governments seek to improve public safety and reduce incarceration rates, electronic monitoring is emerging as an essential tool for transforming criminal justice systems worldwide. With continuous improvements in technology and a growing acceptance of these solutions, the market is set for long-term expansion.

For a detailed overview and more insights, you can refer to the full market research report by Mordor Intelligence

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Montenegro’s Supreme Court to Rule on Do Kwon Extradition This Month: Report

Montenegro’s Supreme Court is reportedly set to decide by the end of this month whether the extradition process of Do Kwon involved legal violations.

According to a recent report by Vijesti, a Montenegrin newspaper, the court will review a request from the Supreme State Prosecutor alleging multiple breaches of law in the judgments made by lower courts regarding Kwon’s extradition.

Do Kwon’s Extradition Result in September

Acting Supreme Court President Vesna Vučković noted that the decision follows concerns over legal uncertainties raised in handling the case.

Vučković emphasized that the situation is particularly troubling given the short timeframe within which these violations were identified in the Do Kwon extradition case.

She suggested that the recent developments could have broader implications for judicial consistency and the perception of fairness in Montenegro’s legal system.

Vučković also indicated that the Supreme Court has been unable to schedule a session to deliberate on the prosecutor’s request due to what she described as “objective reasons,” further complicating the timeline for a final decision.

“That should worry us, because it creates additional legal uncertainty for citizens, but also for judges of lower courts, who monitor judicial practice,” said the acting president.

FutureNet Scheme Co-Founder Arrested in Montenegro

In August, Montenegrin police arrested Roman Ziemian, co-founder of the crypto fraud scheme FutureNet, in Podgorica, where he had been living under a false identity.

Authorities seized items and electronic devices believed to be connected to Ziemian’s activities. He was set to appear before Podgorica’s High Court to determine whether he will be extradited to face charges abroad.

FutureNet, co-founded by Ziemian in 2018, marketed itself as a multilevel marketing platform with its crypto, FuturoCoin (FTO). In 2019, Polish authorities labeled the platform a potential pyramid scheme.

The scheme collapsed in 2020 after South Korean authorities investigated complaints from 950 people who reported significant financial losses. Ziemian, previously arrested in Italy, had escaped house arrest.

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How do electronic monitoring devices for prisoners balance security with human rights?

Electronic monitoring devices for prisoners and offenders are a testament to the evolving landscape of criminal justice, aiming to strike a balance between ensuring public safety and upholding the human rights of those being monitored. These devices, which track the movements and activities of individuals under house arrest or probation, are designed with the dual purpose of preventing recidivism and facilitating rehabilitation in a manner that respects individual freedoms and dignity.

The core of balancing security with human rights lies in the use of technology that is both effective in monitoring and minimally intrusive. GPS ankle bracelets, for example, allow for real-time location tracking, enabling authorities to ensure that individuals comply with their movement restrictions without necessitating physical confinement. This approach not only reduces the strain on prison systems but also allows individuals to maintain employment, family connections, and access to rehabilitative services, crucial factors in reducing the likelihood of reoffending.

Moreover, modern electronic monitoring systems incorporate features designed to respect privacy and dignity. Data encryption and strict access controls ensure that sensitive information is only available to authorized personnel. Additionally, the design of the devices themselves focuses on being discreet and comfortable to wear, minimizing the stigma associated with their use.

Transparency in the use of electronic monitoring and clear communication with the monitored individuals about their rights and obligations also play a critical role in upholding human rights. It's essential that those under monitoring understand the extent of the surveillance, the reasons behind it, and their rights to appeal or question the monitoring conditions.

Laipac is at the forefront of developing electronic monitoring solutions that carefully consider the balance between security needs and human rights. Our devices are designed with the highest standards of ethics and compliance in mind, ensuring that monitoring is both effective and respectful. To learn more about our commitment to advancing electronic monitoring technology in a humane and responsible manner, visit Laipac's Electronic Monitoring for House Arrest.

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Riverdale Resident Yoel Belitz Pleads Guilty to Child Pornography Charges, Sentenced to Supervised Release, Registry

Starting in April of 2020, federal law enforcement agents opened an account on a live video streaming site used primarily for sexual purposes to monitor and chat with accounts engaged in sharing child pornography on the site. Around June 20th, 2022, agents accessed a chatroom in which Belitz was a member. This chat room was suspected to be used for sharing child pornography.

The same day, Belitz posted two links in the chat. The first contained approximately 647 files, consisting primarily of images of nude prepubescent children in sexually explicit poses, as well as images depicting the rape and other sexual assaults of prepubescent females. At least one of the files depicted the sexual assault of an infant.

The second link contained a folder which contained

approximately 628 files consisting primarily of videos depicting prepubescent and adolescent females, many of which depict the nude minor victims engaging in sexually explicit conduct, oral sex, and/or masturbation. One video in the folder depicted a 5 year old being forced to perform a sex act on an adult.

Around July 13th, agents observed Belitz had shared two more links. The first link contained a folder which contained approximately 66 files. The files consisted largely of videos depicting the sexual abuse of prepubescent children. The second contained a folder which contained approximately 105 files. The files were primarily a mixture of sexually explicit videos depicting either adults or teenage girls whose age could not be determined engaged in sex acts.

5 days later, Belitz posted another folder link in the chat. This one contained approximately 91 videos primarily depicting nude prepubescent children in sexually explicit poses and/or being sexually assaulted by adult males.

Around October of 2020 federal agents executed a search warrant on the house Belitz was living in. Belitz admitted to have shared the materials. During the execution of the search of the Subject Premises, law enforcement seized multiple electronic

devices belonging to Belitz, including his cellphone, laptop, and hard drives.

After reviewing the contents of the phone, agents found several hundred stored media files depicting child pornography, including photographs and videos of nude infants and prepubescent children engaging in various sex acts.

Belitz was arrested on 1/15/2021 and pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on 5/27/2022. He was sentenced to time served, 5 years supervised release, and registry, although it seems he may only be a level 1 offender which wouldn't show on the public registry.

Belitz was a former counselor at Camp Kaylie, a former Madrich at B'nei Akiva, and a former counselor at Moshava Ba'ir in New Jersey. He has also worked as an EMT for SeniorCare.

According to a filing in the case, Belitz, at least as of 2021, was davening at SDC in RIverdale.

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Hon. Robinson Uwak Arrested For Criminal Defamation Of Character, Conspiracy To Commit Murder

A detachment of the IGP Monitoring Unit has arrested a former member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Robinson Uwak for alleged criminal defamation of character against the member representing Bende Federal Constituency of Abia State, Rep. Benjamin Kalu.

He was arrested following his refusal to honour series of invitation extended to him by the Inspector General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba. A court of competent jurisdiction therefore issued a warrant of arrest against him.

Rep Benjamin Kalu who is also the spokesperson of the House of Representatives had demanded an apology from Uwak over accusation of infidelity with his (Uwak) wife. He had threatened to approach the court upon failure of Uwak to tender apologies.

Hon Robinson Uwak who was a member of the 7th Assembly of the House of Reps had been accused by his wife Kezia Uwak of domestic violence which led her to leave their matrimonial home as he had alleged to continue abusing her physically regardless of her pleas.

It is noted that in the past few years, Hon. Uwak has lost his first marriage to domestic violence, with a divorce case still pending in court and a newly contracted marriage which like the First broke down on the allegations of domestic violence by the wife which has also been confirmed by the NAPTIP office.

This criminal intention to damage the character of Rep. Benjamin Kalu, led him to publish falsehood in all the major media houses in Nigeria including electronic media, face book, Twitter and various blogs with the aim to institute a smear campaign on his reputation.

In all these time, Rep. Kalu recalled that his wife Kezia who is also skilled photographer and a graphic designer had worked with him during his 2018/2019 campaign, while refusing to join issues or respond to any of the media houses, however took the legal paths of petitioning through his lawyer Prof. Ernest Ojukwu to the Inspector General of Police.

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[“In 1985 the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for women in New York held historic hearings on the devastating links between criminalization and gender-based violence; incarcerated women and their advocates testified about the devastating pipeline between experiencing sexual violence and incarceration. Sisters Inside, an Australian abolitionist group that supports incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women, in 2001 presented the term “state sexual assault” to argue that the state itself is a perpetrator of sexual violence through policing, incarceration, and other carceral methods.

State sexual assault is strip searches and cavity searches of incarcerated or arrested people; it’s the enabling of rampant sexual assault by police officers and prison guards, the general punitiveness and systemic denial of incarcerated people’s bodily autonomy. Sisters Inside organizers who had been incarcerated themselves described how physical and sexual abuse from interpersonal partners and from agents of the state carry many of the same impacts and feel virtually indistinguishable from each other.

Despite the inevitable sexual violence perpetuated by the prison system, mainstream feminist leaders like Gloria Steinem spent the summer of 2022 shilling for the creation of an ostensibly “feminist” women’s prison to be built in a shut-down jail in Harlem. It would be called the Women’s Center for Justice and incarcerate “women and gender-expansive people.” The proposal was immediately shot down by abolitionist feminists, pointing out how prisons are inseparable from white supremacy and are innately sexist and dehumanizing, no matter what they’re called.

“Feminist” organizing for the Women’s Center for Justice is hardly the first time criminal justice reformers have unveiled supposedly more humane forms of prison, like house arrest, electronic monitoring, or parole. This level of state surveillance amounts to a prison without walls, all around us. In their 2020 book Prison by Any Other Name, Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law note that all these ideas raise fundamental questions about the prison system as a whole: “What does it mean to reform—to improve—a system that, at its core, relies on captivity and control? What are the dangers of perfecting a system that was designed to target marginalized people?”

Abolitionist feminists recognize the futility of reforms or collaborations with police to help abuse victims. Abolition entails the end of prisons and policing; it reconstructs society to ensure everyone’s needs are met, survival-based “crimes” are no longer necessary or criminalized, and harm is addressed without dehumanizing, carceral resolutions, which are more likely to reproduce and worsen harm than alleviate it. The carceral system, a fundamentally racist web of processes and institutions that criminalize and incarcerate people, has always been deeply tied to our societal crises of domestic and sexual violence—from the hostility and threats of criminalization that many victims of abuse face when they seek help, to the prevalence of sexual abuse and violence carried out by police officers and within prisons.

Lived experience first prompted me to question the norms of how we understand gender and violence from a carceral lens that frames law enforcement as saviors rather than assailants. With time and reflection on my own experiences with sexual assault, I learned the complexity of acts of interpersonal harm, and multilayered paths to personal restoration that are threatened and upended rather than supported by carceral logic. As a teenager, I balked at the idea of talking to people with guns about what had happened to me when I couldn’t even talk to my own parents. When your only option to process or seek “justice” for acts of sexual harm is to implicate yourself and someone who’s hurt you—someone you may hold complex or even loving feelings toward—into a violent, permanent system, truthfully, you’re left with no options at all. Even then, I think on some level I understood that victims of abuse are not the people that our law enforcement systems and punitive traditions are designed to serve. The police state is built to perpetuate rather than alleviate abuse, to disempower rather than support those who survive violence. The result is a culture in which victims of a wide range of acts of sexual and interpersonal harms are left to fend for themselves or risk incurring additional trauma—even, in no shortage of documented cases, criminalization and incarceration. Carcerality is incompatible with creating environments in which abuse victims feel safe enough to seek recourse. Overinflated police and prison budgets mean that publicly funded resources for victims are severely lacking if not nonexistent. Yet carceral policy is the governing model of nearly all cities across the country, which rely on it to generate revenue through policing, incarcerating, and exploiting Black and brown people, consequently slashing funding for essential resources.”]

kylie cheung, from survivor injustice: state-sanctioned abuse, domestic violence, and the fight for bodily autonomy, 2023

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Hon. Robinson Uwak Arrested For Criminal Defamation Of Character, Conspiracy To Commit Murder

A detachment of the IGP Monitoring Unit has arrested a former member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Robinson Uwak for alleged criminal defamation of character against the member representing Bende Federal Constituency of Abia State, Rep. Benjamin Kalu.

He was arrested following his refusal to honour series of invitation extended to him by the Inspector General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba. A court of competent jurisdiction therefore issued a warrant of arrest against him.

Rep Benjamin Kalu who is also the spokesperson of the House of Representatives had demanded an apology from Uwak over accusation of infidelity with his (Uwak) wife. He had threatened to approach the court upon failure of Uwak to tender apologies.

Hon Robinson Uwak who was a member of the 7th Assembly of the House of Reps had been accused by his wife Kezia Uwak of domestic violence which led her to leave their matrimonial home as he had alleged to continue abusing her physically regardless of her pleas.

It is noted that in the past few years, Hon. Uwak has lost his first marriage to domestic violence, with a divorce case still pending in court and a newly contracted marriage which like the First broke down on the allegations of domestic violence by the wife which has also been confirmed by the NAPTIP office.

This criminal intention to damage the character of Rep. Benjamin Kalu, led him to publish falsehood in all the major media houses in Nigeria including electronic media, face book, Twitter and various blogs with the aim to institute a smear campaign on his reputation.

In all these time, Rep. Kalu recalled that his wife Kezia who is also skilled photographer and a graphic designer had worked with him during his 2018/2019 campaign, while refusing to join issues or respond to any of the media houses, however took the legal paths of petitioning through his lawyer Prof. Ernest Ojukwu to the Inspector General of Police.