The Water Underground

Urban Investigations

The Water Underground

Zoning It In...

Urban Investigations

Zoning It In...

Is Your Landlord Harassing You or Your Neighbors?

Envisioning Development

Is Your Landlord Harassing You or Your Neighbors?

What Is Zoning?

Envisioning Development

What Is Zoning?

Stand Clear of the Rising Fares

Urban Investigations

Stand Clear of the Rising Fares

Get It Back!

Public Access Design

Get It Back!

Print Not on Our Watch!

E-carceration, short for electronic incarceration, is when authorities use surveillance technology like ankle monitors, cameras, and GPS to track and control people in their own communities.

While e-carceration might get some people out from behind bars, the same technology makes it easier to monitor and punish more people overall, and Black, brown, and immigrant communities have become the biggest targets. Having fewer people behind bars, but giving authorities more power to punish Black, brown, and immigrant communities is not a just solution to the problems of mass incarceration.

To help communities understand how e-carceration works and the consequences for Black, brown, and immigrant communities, CUP teamed up with Freedom to Thrive and designers Shreyas R Krishnan and Kruttika Susarla to create Not On Our Watch! The foldout poster explains and illustrates the concept of “e-carceration” and how it perpetuates a system of mass surveillance of communities of color. Available in English and Spanish, Not On Our Watch also highlights community actions that have been taken across the country to offer alternatives to our current systems of incarceration and surveillance. 

Safe Space?

City Studies

Safe Space?

Bottled Up

City Studies

Bottled Up

Keep Your Family's Home

Public Access Design

Keep Your Family's Home

Bronx Be Well

Urban Investigations

Bronx Be Well

How Can I Improve My Park?

Making Policy Public

How Can I Improve My Park?

Tenants' Rights to Repairs

Making Policy Public

Tenants' Rights to Repairs

Break it Down!

Making Policy Public

Break it Down!

Pass It On!

Making Policy Public

Pass It On!