I'm no fan of McKinsey but the story told in this article seemed very incurious about some essential questions. Like, what was Restart, in terms of specific policy changes? What was the motivation or rationale behind it? Was it just about sorting inmates based on the HUB algorithm?

This happens a lot when I'm reading ProPublica. It's fascinating while I'm reading it, but at the end I'm left wondering what exactly just happened, and whether I got duped by sophisticated outrage porn. They look for dysfunction with tunnel vision to the detriment of coherence and context.