Stringer/Reuters HarrisLogic uses data to identify prisoners that require intensive treatment for mental illness. The company’s analytics can predict who will return to prison within six months with a high degree of accuracy. By cutting back on treatment costs and recidivism, HarrisLogic has saved Dallas County $30 million over the course of four years. The majority of America’s […]
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Open thread for night owls. 'Prison Labor on the Kill Line’
Michelle Chen at The Nation writes—Prison Labor on the ‘Kill Line’: Frank Dwayne Ellington showed up at an Alabama chicken factory last October for his weekend shift, expecting to work off another day of his life sentence. As one of the Alabama inmates selected to work in a prison-labor program known as work-release, Ellington might […]