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>In the case of the data-backed nonsense it’s been used to justify holding people past their prison sentence. I'm not sure why you assume that it's keeping peo
by treis 6y ago
>In the case of the data-backed nonsense it’s been used to justify holding people past their prison sentence.
I'm not sure why you assume that it's keeping people in prison and not being used to let them out.
- a1369209993 6y agoFrom https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23655017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23655017 (your GGP) and supposedly originally https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/78691781-c9b7-30a0-9a0a-3ff76e8bfe58 https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/78691781-c9b7... : > In America this is being used to decide whether to keep them in jail even after they have served their full sentence. That may not be true, but the reason why they assume that is that basch and/or the BBC said that.