Galsworthy Criminal Justice Reform Program

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Opinion: PA’s new sentencing algorithm is a weapon of mass incarceration

“If we divest decision-making to an algorithm that ignores our capacity to change, then we will enter a new, frightening stage of mass incarceration. If the tool is trained to find risk, it will most certainly find it, and weaponize it to incarcerate us, rather than send us home to make amends, and to heal our families and communities.“

Billy Penn

December 11, 2018