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Crime-Predicting Algorithms May Not Fare Much Better Than Untrained Humans

Published: Jan. 18, 2018, 7:59 a.m.

b'The American criminal justice system couldn\\u2019t get much less fair. Across the country, some 1.5 million people are locked up in state and federal prisons. More than 600,000 people, the vast majority of whom have yet to be convicted of a crime, sit behind bars in local jails. Black people make up 40 percent of those incarcerated, despite accounting for just 13 percent of the US population.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'