criminal justice
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U.S. Justice Department Admits: We Don’t Even Know How Many Predictive Policing Tools We’ve Funded
Several of the nation’s largest cities use federal tax dollars to fund the development of software promising to predict the locations of future crimes. They’ve done so for the better part of a decade. For the first time, though, the agency overseeing the distribution of that money has formally acknowledged it has little idea of…
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Study Details How Phone Companies In The U.S. Prey On Families Of Inmates In Local Jails
A report published on Monday by the Prison Policy Initiative highlights the predatory practices of prison technology companies in U.S. city- and county-run jails, where inmates and their families continue to pay “astronomical rates” to place phone calls that would cost average consumers virtually nothing.
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How One US State Botched An Execution With Untested Drugs
Tuesday night was horrific. After weeks of controversy, the US state of Oklahoma had planned to execute two convicted murders with untested lethal injection drugs. As many had feared, the drugs didn’t work like they were supposed to, and one lethal injection drugsof the prisoners suffered in front of an audience.