Understanding and improving technology's role in criminal justice reform.
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Prisons Are Banning Books That Teach Prisoners How to Code - Oregon prisons have banned dozens of books about technology and programming, like 'Microsoft Excel 2016 for Dummies,' citing security reasons. The state isn't alone. @jtashea reddit.com/r/technology/comm…
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Police say 8% of Baltimore's Citiwatch cameras aren't working baltimoresun.com/news/maryla…
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New Sleepwalkers out now bit.ly/Sleepwalkers3 on digital surveillance, an AI new world order, & algorithms calling shots in the US justice system. Massive thanks @kaifulee @ianbremmer @LisaTalia @blink_identity @AlexKilpatrick @JusticeCodes @BenSingletonNYC & Glenn Rodriguez
If data doesn't make you think of a new world order, it should. AI is enabling wholesale surveillance and changing the landscape in countries like China. But how is this already playing out in the US?
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Open Justice Baltimore officially announces the launch of BPD Watch: an open-to-the-public interactive database of Baltimore Police Department officers. BPD Watch relies on *publicly available data* and verified crowd-sourced information.
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Teaching _with_ tech (and data), not teaching tech. Brilliant risk assessment & decision simulator for bail hearings - @keithporcaro & @jtashea bit.ly/2XjXWov
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In today's criminal justice news, researchers at the University of Toledo and Ball State University have released yet another study again confirming what we already know: adding police to our schools does *not* make them any safer
washingtonpost.com/education… – at Durham, NC
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We’ve mapped legislation in every state that impacts policing, mass incarceration, immigration, gun safety, voting rights and other justice-related issues. Find the bills your state reps are currently considering and push them to take action at ourstates.org
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Our @Medium blog, Decoded, explains the methodology behind our research, addressing subjects from survey methods and machine learning to data visualization. bit.ly/2SUf7dT
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Thanks for including this @goclio sponsored @ABAInnovation Fellowship project in your directory, @JusticeCodes! #opensource #a2j
NEW Justice Tech: docassemble-openlcbr allows docassemble interview developers to automate legal reasoning about subjective questions.
From @RoundTableLaw
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Kentucky Senate passes felony expungement bill wkyt.com/content/news/Kentuc…
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Florida prisons are getting sued for erasing $11 million worth of prisoner music purchases theverge.com/2019/2/20/18233…
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22% of Tennessee's female jail population are in pretrial detention because they could not pay their bail on a MISDEMEANOR charge. #BailReform #TNLeg
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“We need to understand the framing power of technology tools in criminal justice-how does it change power dynamics” @JusticeCodes #StateoftheSouth #a2j
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Mass. State Troopers Begin Wearing Body Cameras wgbh.org/news/local-news/201…
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Please help me spread the word about these research grants of $25K intended to increase the pipeline of diverse talent receiving PhDs in computing-related fields
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CA5: When govt executed warrant at a home for narcotics and related items, including "ledgers," it was okay to seize a cell phone found there: The cell phone was "the equivalent of a ledger." (What a terribly drafted warrant.) ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pu…
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About 97 percent of prisoners around the country infected with Hepatitis C aren’t being treated. And high drug costs are one reason trib.al/yzw6Tmb
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Our multipart investigation on flawed federal and local law enforcement practices in the struggle against the MS-13 gang won the John Jay College/Harry Frank Guggenheim Award for Excellence in Criminal Justice Journalism. propub.li/2WbcsiT
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#Expungement records from #Massachusetts reflect the general trend of limited use in many states because these laws are typically too restricted, complicated, and limited to effectively ensure #Second Chances @cmwadenews @EagleTrib #CJReform ow.ly/3vXg30nnUhb