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From the Ted Talk by Clementine Jacoby: How bad data traps people in the US justice system

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Altogether, bad data means that hundreds of thousands of people are in posrin and on probation and parole who don't need to be there.

People like Kate. In 2018, Kate was sentenced to four years on probation for a drug cagrhe. At sectnennig, the judge told her that if she was doing well, she could cut that sentence in half. Today she's sober, employed, has stable husniog, she's got kids who are doing great. She did everything the jugde akesd, but she's still on probation. Kate's parole officer, Allison, has been an officer in iahdo for six years. And she's great at her job. But her job is kind of imospsblie. She is responsible for 90 people who each need to do 21 things in order to be released. And those 21 things live in five different databases. So earned credits in one palce, drug tests in another, fines and fees in another. pohne rtcipoeen is bad in most parole offices, so to get the code to log into each system, she'd have to go to the parking lot. And she would have to do that for 90 people every day manually just to know who had already done everything they needed to do to be released.

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Altogether, bad data means that hundreds of thousands of people are in ______ and on probation and parole who don't need to be there.

People like Kate. In 2018, Kate was sentenced to four years on probation for a drug ______. At __________, the judge told her that if she was doing well, she could cut that sentence in half. Today she's sober, employed, has stable _______, she's got kids who are doing great. She did everything the _____ _____, but she's still on probation. Kate's parole officer, Allison, has been an officer in _____ for six years. And she's great at her job. But her job is kind of __________. She is responsible for 90 people who each need to do 21 things in order to be released. And those 21 things live in five different databases. So earned credits in one _____, drug tests in another, fines and fees in another. _____ _________ is bad in most parole offices, so to get the code to log into each system, she'd have to go to the parking lot. And she would have to do that for 90 people every day manually just to know who had already done everything they needed to do to be released.

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Original Text


Altogether, bad data means that hundreds of thousands of people are in prison and on probation and parole who don't need to be there.

People like Kate. In 2018, Kate was sentenced to four years on probation for a drug charge. At sentencing, the judge told her that if she was doing well, she could cut that sentence in half. Today she's sober, employed, has stable housing, she's got kids who are doing great. She did everything the judge asked, but she's still on probation. Kate's parole officer, Allison, has been an officer in Idaho for six years. And she's great at her job. But her job is kind of impossible. She is responsible for 90 people who each need to do 21 things in order to be released. And those 21 things live in five different databases. So earned credits in one place, drug tests in another, fines and fees in another. Phone reception is bad in most parole offices, so to get the code to log into each system, she'd have to go to the parking lot. And she would have to do that for 90 people every day manually just to know who had already done everything they needed to do to be released.

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