Report | From Data Criminalization to Prison Abolition

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CJE's new report, From Data Criminalization to Prison Abolition, examines the interlocked machineries of migrant surveillance and describes processes of “data criminalization:” the creation, archiving, theft, resale and analysis of datasets that mark some of us as threats and risks, based on data culled about us from state and commercial sources.

Introduction “To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.” — Ursula K. Le Guin The following is a report about surveillance and social control of migrants and criminalized peoples, written from a prison-industrial-complex abolitionist perspective. Here, we describe practices that we term “data criminalization:” the creation, archiving, theft, resale and analysis of datasets that mark certain people as threats and risks, based on data culled about them from state and commercial sources. Data analysis and prediction may seem modern, scientific or objective, boasting cutting-edg

Report | From Data Criminalization to Prison Abolition

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