This kind of reads like this company has come up with this scheme and now they are trying to sell it by forcing prisons to use it through legislation or at leas

This kind of reads like this company has come up with this scheme and now they are trying to sell it by forcing prisons to use it through legislation or at least pressure from congress. Notice that even though the headline says "U.S. Prisons mull AI" the article actually says an unspecified congressional panel and an unnamed Democratic congressional aide are pushing for it to be "studied" there are zero mentions of prisons asking for it beyond a note that a sheriff in a town of 21,000 people claims to have solved a crime using it. Feels like the real story here is corruption.