This paper discusses the electronic monitoring (EM) of indicted and convicted citizens in Brazil during the COVID-19 pandemic. We start by discussing how EM was implemented in the country and describing its close link with the technology company Spacecom. We argue that the use of EM to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 in the Brazilian prison system intensifies the continuation of an uninterrupted mechanism of social control that is sustained by systemic racism in Brazil through a growing link between the State and technology companies. Mapping the changes that EM imposes on criminal legal practices, reflecting on data access and management carried out by private companies, and analyzing the acceleration of this process during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil are topics addressed herein.

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聪明的囚犯：在 COVID-19 大流行期间在巴西监狱中使用电子监控

本文讨论了 COVID-19 大流行期间巴西被起诉和被定罪的公民的电子监控 (EM)。我们首先讨论 EM 在该国是如何实施的，并描述了它与科技公司 Spacecom 的密切联系。我们认为，使用 EM 来减轻 COVID-19 在巴西监狱系统中的影响，加强了不间断的社会控制机制的延续，该机制由巴西的系统性种族主义通过国家与科技公司之间日益增长的联系来维持。绘制 EM 对刑事法律实践的变化、反思私营公司进行的数据访问和管理以及分析巴西 COVID-19 大流行期间这一过程的加速是本文讨论的主题。