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hrmjustin

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Fri Sep 5, 2014, 12:41 PM Sep 2014

There Has Been a 4,000% Increase in Ankle-Monitoring of Women in New York This Year

Tessa Stuart


New York's Immigrations and Customs Enforcement field office has dramatically increased the number of women whose movements it is tracking via GPS-enabled ankle monitors this year, according to statistics provided to the Voice.

In 2012 ICE put only 24 ankle monitors on women in New York; in 2013 that number decreased slightly, to just 18. This year, though, the New York field office has put a staggering 719 women in ankle monitors — a 3,894 percent increase year to year.

The number of men with ankle monitors has stayed relatively constant over the same three years — 118 in 2012, 165 in 2013, and 132 this year. Women remain in the minority nationally, too: Only 38 percent of Alternatives to Detention "participants" — 7,4407 individuals as of July — are female; 62 percent are male.

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2014/09/there_has_been_a_4000_increase_in_ankle-monitoring_of_women_in_new_york_thi.php

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There Has Been a 4,000% Increase in Ankle-Monitoring of Women in New York This Year (Original Post) hrmjustin Sep 2014 OP
That could be today's double entendre award winner BeyondGeography Sep 2014 #1
HA--I had the very same thought! nt MADem Sep 2014 #2
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