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An Algorithm Deemed a Nearly Blind 70-Year-Old Prisoner Ineligible for Parole
- hn_acker 2y agoThe original title is: > An Algorithm Deemed This Nearly Blind 70-Year-Old Prisoner a "Moderate Risk." Now He's No Longer Eligible for Parole. I changed the meaning of the title substantially to fit the 80 character limit. The algorithm (TIGER) is a "risk assessment tool" and was not made to directly decide parole eligibility. However, a law signed in 2024 made TIGER results equivalent to parole eligibility: > Louisiana corrections officials started using the TIGER scores as part of the parole determination process in 2018, but it was only in 2024 that they became the sole measure of parole eligibility. > Similar algorithms are used throughout the country in the parole decision-making process, but legal scholars say the way such risk tools calculate a person’s odds of reoffending is among the reasons why no other state exclusively uses them to bar individuals from parole. While algorithms like TIGER can predict on a group level that 40 out of 100 people will reoffend upon their release, they can’t pinpoint exactly who those 40 people will be, according to experts.
- bell-cot 2y agoIf one actually wanted to work around the idiotic "tough on crime" political machismo - it might help for rival politicians to play up the "disabled elderly prisoners, living in nursing homes with bars and guards, at taxpayer expense" angle.