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The title of this post is the title of this paper recently posted to SSRN and authored by Amy Cyphert. Here is its abstract:
The First Step Act, a seemingly miraculous bipartisan criminal justice reform bill, was signed into law in late 2018. The Act directed the Attorney General to develop a risk and needs assessment tool that would effectively determine who would be eligible for early release based on an algorithmic prediction of recidivism. …
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