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Re:Whistleblowers: Software keeping inmates in Arizona priso... by Firehawke on Monday February 22, 2021 @12:52PM (#26227657)
Not that simple. There are behavioral factors that can affect a prisoner's status and that particular information would never be public.

It's a full-on bureaucracy where only the computers actually know the correct full calculation for every prisoner due to the complexity of the formulas, and when the computers can't do that correctly people get screwed with no recourse because it's humanly impossible to keep up with every detail.

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Re:Whistleblowers: Software keeping inmates in Arizona priso... by toomuchtodo on Monday February 22, 2021 @01:01PM (#26227819)
I agree it's not simple. I am advocating for activist (engineering, political, etc) efforts against The Bureaucracy. Public data is a component of that, from a transparency and accountability perspective, very similar to FOIAing everything you can get your hands on (ie muckrock.com). You want to be able to "show your work" in broad daylight.
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