Conventionally the process of removing a person’s criminal record is undertaken manually, a process that takes time and one where errors can occur. The purpose of the new algorithm is to make the ...

Like the clairvoyants in the film “Minority Report,” computer-generated risk assessment algorithms aim to predict the likelihood that someone will commit crime in the future. These risk assessment ...

FILE - A sign marks an entrance to the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building in Washington, Monday, Jan. 23, 2023. The Justice Department has been scrutinizing a controversial artificial ...

Here’s a choose-your-own-adventure game nobody wants to play: you’re a United States judge tasked with deciding bail for a black man, a first-time offender, accused of a non-violent crime. An ...

Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill has a chance to initiate some important reforms for New Jersey's criminal justice system. Here's ...

Spokane County is adopting a new computer algorithm designed to help judges decide which defendants should remain in jail, abandoning a more costly, custom-developed program that was hampered by ...

PITTSBURGH — The Justice Department has been scrutinizing a controversial artificial intelligence tool used by a Pittsburgh-area child protective services agency following concerns that the tool could ...

Dozens of people packed into a Philadelphia courtroom on June 6 to voice their objections to a proposed criminal justice algorithm. The algorithm, developed by the Pennsylvania Commission on ...

PITTSBURGH — The Justice Department has been scrutinizing a controversial artificial intelligence tool used by a Pittsburgh-area child protective services agency following concerns that it could ...