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May 26, 2021

UChicago News: For launching JusticeText, Leslie Jones-Dove and Devshi Mehrotra named to Forbes 30 Under 30

UChicago News: For launching JusticeText, Leslie Jones-Dove and Devshi Mehrotra named to Forbes 30 Under 30. “”In 2019, a pair of undergraduate computer science majors at the University of Chicago set out to complete their capstone for the College course, ‘Entrepreneurship in Technology.’ They never anticipated that their project would later serve public defenders around the country. Shortly after the class ended, Leslie Jones-Dove and Devshi Mehrotra co-founded JusticeText, software that generates automated transcripts of body camera footage, interrogation videos, jail calls and more. JusticeText expedites the pre-trial preparation time and allows public defenders to analyze crucial data.”

March 6, 2021

Chicago Booth Review: Law and order and data

Chicago Booth Review: Law and order and data. “Algorithms are already being used in criminal-justice applications in many places, helping decide where police departments should send officers for patrol, as well as which defendants should be released on bail and how judges should hand out sentences. Research is exploring the potential benefits and dangers of these tools, highlighting where they can go wrong and how they can be prevented from becoming a new source of inequality. The findings of these studies prompt some important questions such as: Should artificial intelligence play some role in policing and the courts? If so, what role should it play? The answers, it appears, depend in large part on small details.”

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March 3, 2021

Scottish Legal News: Database of miscarriages of justice in UK launched

Scottish Legal News: Database of miscarriages of justice in UK launched. “The Laboratory for Evidence-Based Justice, based at Exeter Law School, is a new research group working at the intersection of cognitive psychology, data science, and law. The new database, created by the lab, includes the most comprehensive set of information to date about convictions overturned as a result of factual error in the UK, and covers cases in England and Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland, from 1970 to the present.” Currently information is available on 346 cases.

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October 30, 2020

Hyperallergic: Mural Arts and the African American Museum in Philadelphia Present Rendering Justice

Hyperallergic: Mural Arts and the African American Museum in Philadelphia Present Rendering Justice. “Rendering Justice features a cohort of nine artists from across the country whose work highlights a broad range of issues bound in mass incarceration, with a particular focus on Philadelphia. While the number of people jailed and imprisoned by Philadelphia’s criminal justice system has declined dramatically in recent years, the city remains one of the most heavily incarcerated in the nation.”

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February 2, 2020

KTBS: New database expands access to judicial financial disclosures

KTBS: New database expands access to judicial financial disclosures. “The Metropolitan Crime Commission, a non-profit watchdog group based in New Orleans, published a searchable database that allows the public to look up financial disclosure forms for any Louisiana judge. Elected officials in Louisiana are required to disclose where their money comes from, whether it’s from a job, an inheritance, an investment or any other source. They are also required to disclose their spouse’s financial information on the forms.”

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December 18, 2019

Google Blog: Google.org Fellows bring transparency to local jail data nationwide

Google Blog: Google.org Fellows bring transparency to local jail data nationwide. “The last nationwide jail census was conducted in 2013, and the federal government’s most recent estimate of the U.S. jail population is from 2017. Because it takes so long to get up-to-date information on jail populations, Vera–an organization working to improve justice systems–started a project to collect the data themselves.”

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December 12, 2018

University of Mississippi: New Jail Database Shows Lengthy Pretrial Incarceration Continues in Mississippi’s Local Jails

University of Mississippi: New Jail Database Shows Lengthy Pretrial Incarceration Continues in Mississippi’s Local Jails. “The vast majority of the 5,534 men and women detained in local Mississippi jails are not serving sentences for criminal convictions but instead are awaiting their day in court to face charges, and nearly half of the detainees have been in jail for more than 90 days. Those are some of the findings made available to the public today by the MacArthur Justice Center at the University of Mississippi School of Law.”

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November 3, 2018

National Institute of Corrections: New Council of State Governments Web Tool Provides Look at Legal, Regulatory Restrictions Against People who have Criminal Convictions

National Institute of Corrections: New Council of State Governments Web Tool Provides Look at Legal, Regulatory Restrictions Against People who have Criminal Convictions. “The new National Inventory of Collateral Consequences of Conviction resource (link is external), launched today – October 31, 2018 by the National Reentry Resource Center and The Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center, compiles thousands of state and federal statutes into a searchable database, making it easier to identify these obscure regulations that can be triggered by a particular conviction.”

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March 31, 2018

University of Virginia: Mapping The Modern Death Sentence

University of Virginia: Mapping The Modern Death Sentence. “Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Law have collaborated on a new website that uses a data-driven, interactive map to illustrate the rapid decline of the issuance of the death sentence in the United States since 1991.”

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March 14, 2018

Govtech: Will Florida’s Data Collection Bill Make It the Most Transparent State in the Nation?

Govtech: Will Florida’s Data Collection Bill Make It the Most Transparent State in the Nation?. “Florida will have the most transparent criminal justice system in the nation following new legislation aimed at improving data collection. The legislation establishes a framework for a new database that will track a defendant’s experience at each step of the criminal justice system — from arrest and bail proceedings to sentencing — and compare those outcomes through a searchable website available to the public.”

Security & Legal Issues 0

UChicago News: For launching JusticeText, Leslie Jones-Dove and Devshi Mehrotra named to Forbes 30 Under 30

Chicago Booth Review: Law and order and data

Scottish Legal News: Database of miscarriages of justice in UK launched

Hyperallergic: Mural Arts and the African American Museum in Philadelphia Present Rendering Justice

KTBS: New database expands access to judicial financial disclosures

Google Blog: Google.org Fellows bring transparency to local jail data nationwide

University of Mississippi: New Jail Database Shows Lengthy Pretrial Incarceration Continues in Mississippi’s Local Jails

National Institute of Corrections: New Council of State Governments Web Tool Provides Look at Legal, Regulatory Restrictions Against People who have Criminal Convictions

University of Virginia: Mapping The Modern Death Sentence

Govtech: Will Florida’s Data Collection Bill Make It the Most Transparent State in the Nation?

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