A fatal stabbing at a Chicago CTA station has reignited debate over electronic monitoring effectiveness, after prosecutors revealed the suspect had repeatedly violated his GPS ankle bracelet conditions without consequence. On October 8, 2026, CTA rail maintenance janitor Julian Mobley, 41, was fatally stabbed at the Damen Green Line station by Chevazz Campbell, 37, who […]
On October 7, 2026, a San Francisco judge faced a question that distills everything wrong with today’s ankle monitor technology into a single courtroom moment: should a dead GPS ankle bracelet battery be enough to lock someone up before trial? The accused — homeless, unable to afford a replacement charger after the monitoring agency declined […]
When Brian Golsby raped and murdered 21-year-old Ohio State University student Reagan Tokes on February 8, 2017, he was wearing a GPS ankle bracelet. The device recorded his movements with sub-minute precision — tracking him as he circled her workplace, followed her to her car, and drove her to Scioto Grove Metro Park where he […]
When a Louisiana court convicted an ankle monitoring company employee for negligent injury in August 2026, it marked the first time in the state’s history that someone responsible for tracking a GPS ankle bracelet was held criminally liable for failing to act on violation alerts. The case — rooted in the 2021 murder of 70-year-old […]
When ICE fitted a GPS ankle monitor on 20-year-old Pierre Damas Bel in Springfield, Ohio, this July, the device was one of roughly 53,000 GPS trackers strapped to immigrants under the agency’s Alternatives to Detention program — a 76% increase over the previous fiscal year, according to federal data reviewed by WCPO. Meanwhile in Prince […]
On August 31, 2026, Pierre Damas Bel — a 20-year-old Haitian honors student and varsity soccer player at Wright State University in Springfield, Ohio — walked onto Interstate 70 and stepped into the path of a tractor-trailer. He died at the scene. His family, his pastor, and Ohio Governor Mike DeWine all pointed to the […]
On August 26, 2026, the UK Ministry of Justice announced a policy that no other country has attempted at national scale: restriction zones — geographic boundaries that confine serious sexual and violent offenders to areas as small as a few miles wide after prison release, enforced by mandatory GPS ankle bracelet monitoring. The program launches […]
On August 5, 2026, Taiwan People’s Party founder Ko Wen-je arrived at Taipei’s Ren’ai Police Station on crutches to swap his electronic ankle monitor for a wrist bracelet. The Taiwan High Court approved the switch after reviewing 10 months of monitoring data that revealed a staggering 3,803 alert incidents — 98% of which were system […]
On July 28, 2026, the Japanese government approved emergency countermeasures at a ministerial meeting on crime prevention (Kyodo News) — including a landmark proposal to require high-risk stalkers under restraining orders to wear GPS tracking devices. Victims would receive automatic proximity alerts if the offender approaches a designated area, giving them time to evacuate or […]
Ghana’s Parliament passed the Community Service Act, 2026 in July 2026, and the Interior Ministry simultaneously laid Parole Regulations, 2026 before the House — two pieces of legislation that together represent West Africa’s most comprehensive non-custodial sentencing reform in a generation. The laws tackle a crisis that has festered for decades: Ghana’s 43 prisons hold […]
