James Kilgore is an activist, researcher and writer based in Urbana, Illinois. He is co-director of FirstFollowers Reentry Program and the author of five books, including Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People’s Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time. He is also the director of the Challenging E-Carceration project which focuses on the use of electronic monitoring in the criminal legal system. Follow him on Twitter: @waazn1.