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.
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