Some questions for Jim Webb

Recently, there have been some seemingly positive pushes in the fight to transform American Criminal Justice Policy. Senator Jim Webb of Virginia has called for a national conversation and subsequent changes in the functions of the American Criminal Justice System. Specifically, Webb is calling for better parole policy, drug treatment, mental health services, and electronic, in home monitoring, of non-violent criminals. Apparently the nationwide state fiscal crisis has set the stage for such a national conversation. While I applaud aspects of this national push by Webb, I am concerned about many of the specifics. In the following lines I will raise questions that it is important for those of us who want substantive change in the American Police State to ask in this 'national conversation.'
1. What does it mean to have the police state engaged in the electronic monitoring of those convicted of crimes?
2. Who will profit from electronic monitoring?
3. Would this fundamentally change the historic relationship between the state's monitoring/ policing functions and poor communities of color?
4. What happens if the country moves right and the state has such technologically facilitated access to poor communities of color?
5. Will there be federal oversight of such programming or will local police agencies get unbridled access to such technology?
6. Again, who profits from electronic monitoring?
7. What would drug treatment look like?
8. Would drug treatment be free?
9. Would enrollment be forced?
10. What would mental health services look like?
11. Would they be free?
12. Would enrollment in mental health services be forced?