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The idea is obviously bad because it’s ostensibly designed to protect prisoners by reducing the opportunity for prisoner-on-prisoner violence. A noble goal, but
by ModernMech 5y ago
The idea is obviously bad because it’s ostensibly designed to protect prisoners by reducing the opportunity for prisoner-on-prisoner violence. A noble goal, but what this fails to recognize is a good chunk of prison violence originates from guards, including sexual assault. I fear giving guards free reign to isolated prisoners would have the exact opposite effect of reducing violence in prison.
- nemo44x 5y agoThat sounds like a pretty easy problem to solve with auditable surveillance that is redundantly deployed and has realtime ML algorithms that "watch" it.
- ModernMech 5y agoAnd this surveillance system would be controlled by…
- nemo44x 5y agoMultiple independent auditors?
- ModernMech 5y agoThat could work but at the end of the day it’s the guards who have physical control of the surveillance system. We would have to rely on this other system (powered by ML — who designed this system? - and independent auditors) working for prisoners instead of for the guards when anything goes wrong (sorry the recording malfunctioned during the exact period you claim you were assaulted). Unfortunately prisoners are usually on the losing end of systems designed by their jailers, as they lack strong advocacy and a role in designing the system itself.
- mcguire 5y agoI thought this was supposed to be cheaper?
- stnmtn 5y ago"Here's a historically hard problem that we've had and experienced for decades if not centuries with multifaceted origins and no clear answer" HN: "Just use ML, seems pretty easy to me". I don't meant to disparage you, but that is how your comment came across to me.
- nemo44x 5y agoWe do it already. Within the context of this prison system (independent cubicles) I don’t think it’s very difficult.