Whistleblowers: Software keeping inmates in Arizona prisons beyond release dates

Re:Whistleblowers: Software keeping inmates in Arizona priso... by ipsin on Monday February 22, 2021 @09:29PM (#26233211)

I understand that there's a lot of work that could go into this sort of thing (mocks, accessibility, testing)... but is 2000 hours really a defensible number? It sounds like there's new per-inmate data and calculations for inmate eligibility and sentencing credit. But 2000 hours worth of work? Even sand-bagging it sounds like way too much.

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Re:Whistleblowers: Software keeping inmates in Arizona priso... by pixl97 on Monday February 22, 2021 @11:13PM (#26233745)

Of course you're assuming they have anyone left at the company that understand the software. So many times the original team that wrote it is gone, and there is a plate of spaghetti left for the next group to figure out.

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Re:Whistleblowers: Software keeping inmates in Arizona priso... by dreamcompiler on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @12:13AM (#26234028)

It's probably worse than that. Most likely the vendor subcontracted it out to an overseas contractor that hired mostly junior-level programmers who are now working elsewhere.

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Re:Whistleblowers: Software keeping inmates in Arizona priso... by codyb on Monday February 22, 2021 @10:43PM (#26233592)

I was pretty incredulous until a cousin poster started talking about auditing, testing, red tape, out of date systems, and security.

Seems plausible it could balloon.

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Re:Whistleblowers: Software keeping inmates in Arizona priso... by maybenotafart on Monday February 22, 2021 @10:39PM (#26233576)

sounds much more like budget politics against the incompetent

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