It’s not quite Minority Report, but the concept is the same (minus the future-seeing ladies in the water). By analyzing biographies, the software is supposed to help parole boards decide if prisoners will be repeat offenders if released.
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Can parole software make predictions on future crimes?
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Published October 13, 2013
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At the age of 13, Michael T. Murphy went into the woods near his home in rural New York with the 10-year-old boy who lived next door and stabbed him to death. Last year, having rejected Mr. Murphy’s application 11 times over his more than a quarter-century in prison, the New York State Board of Parole set him free.
This time, the parole board deemed Mr. Murphy, then 41, to be a low risk for committing future crimes, according to parole board documents. The board reached its decision using a computer software program called Compas, one of several designed to predict whether individual convicts will return to prison.
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