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Podcast: New Thinking, a Center for Court Innovation Podcast
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The Most Hot-Button Issue in Criminal Justice Reform?
Category: Government & Organizations
Duration: 00:30:21
Publish Date: 2018-10-05 14:20:10
Description:

About two out of three people in local jails are being held awaiting trial, often because they can't afford bail. What if a mathematical formula could do a more objective job of identifying who could be safely released? That's the promise of risk assessments. But critics call them "justice by algorithm," and contend they're reproducing the bias inherent to the justice system, only this time under the guise of science.
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