The Right to Hug - Talk by Alec Karakatsanis

This event explores how carceral bureaucracies and corporate telecommunications interests have transformed family contact into a profit center. From Michigan’s groundbreaking “Right to Hug” class action to jail policies across the United States that replace in-person visits with costly, glitchy, and surveilled video calls, the talk examines how family connection is being reshaped.

What does this litigation and issue mean for more fundamental rights, and for the increasingly authoritarian profiteering from the most basic and fundamental aspects of human relationships?