Identifying discrepancies in prison sentencing based on race

Status: Inactive
Parent Organization: IBM
Who's it used by?: People in the Black community are faced with harsher downstream effects in the criminal justice system. They are charged at higher rates, assigned more significant charges, convicted at higher rates, given longer sentences, and denied parole more often than people of other races for similar offenses. This systemic bias in the justice system has a deep and lasting impact on Black families, Black communities, and the country. Open Sentencing exposes bias and empowers public defenders to directly address racial disparities in the judicial system.The solution includes a user interface (UI) that feeds into a pretrained Bias & Disparity Detection Engine. This engine analyzes fact patterns and rapidly provides statistical analysis that highlights deviations from guidelines by race throughout an accused person’s judiciary process. The reports from Open Sentencing provide clear insights for the public defender to aid in defending against detected bias, ultimately, and ideally fairly, reducing incarceration for members of the Black community.
Last Modified: 6/27/2024
Added on: 5/9/2022

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