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An illustration of a parole board table with two women seated and looking through paperwork while a man in a tie stands as he reads papers in his hands. Images of parole board hearings hang on the walls.
Life Inside November 8
Life Inside, Remixed: A Criminal Justice Reformer Takes on ‘Conveyor Belt Justice’
Carol Shapiro joined the New York parole board to make change. Marathon days, copious paperwork and dysfunctional hearings brought her to tears.
By The Marshall Project
Attorney General William Barr at the Department of Justice in early March.
Coronavirus March 28, 2020
How Bill Barr’s COVID-19 Prisoner Release Plan Could Favor White People
Only 7 percent of black men would be deemed low-risk enough to get out using the federal prison system’s risk assessment tool, according to an analysis.
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Concerns about racial bias have dogged risk assessments almost since their inception.
News July 1, 2019
Can Racist Algorithms Be Fixed?
A new study adds to the debate over racial bias in risk assessment tools widely used in courtrooms.
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Justice Lab August 14, 2018
A Dangerous Brain
Can neuroscience predict how likely someone is to commit another crime?
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Judge James Brady presides over the preliminary hearing for a defendant charged with first-degree felony murder in Provo, Utah, in August.
Commentary October 25, 2017
Debating Risk-Assessment Tools
Experts weigh in on whether algorithms have a place in our criminal justice system.
Elizabeth Glazer, Hannah Jane Sassaman, Jon Wool
Judge J.C. Nicholson speaks to prisoners in 2009 from the bench at the Anderson County Courthouse in South Carolina.
Commentary October 22, 2017
In Defense of Risk-Assessment Tools
Algorithms can help the criminal justice system, but only alongside thoughtful humans.
Adam Neufeld
David Jones in an undated photograph with his son.
News November 12, 2015
Kentucky’s Protracted Struggle to Get Rid of Bail
‘Is there any better way than money’?
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Feature August 4, 2015
The New Science of Sentencing
Should prison sentences be based on crimes that haven’t been committed yet?
By Anna Maria Barry-Jester, Ben Casselman and
Feature July 10, 2015
Life Without Parole
Inside the secretive world of parole boards, where your freedom may depend on politics and whim.
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News July 10, 2015
Nine Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Parole
For example: Most states don’t require board members to have any experience with the criminal justice system.
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