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Release assessment

After being incarcerated for two years, you are told there is a chance you may be released early for good behavior. You have a meeting with your case manager, who asks you a few questions and looks over your history. The next day, you are informed that you have been assessed as still presenting a risk to the community, so you will not be released. You are told there’s an opportunity to reassess in a year.

Risk assessment technologies: discretionary parole

When deciding whether to release an incarcerated person early on parole, parole boards may use RAT scores in determining whether a person is likely to reoffend once they are released.

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Risk assessment technologies: discretionary parole

Parole boards use RAT scores to make decisions about whether to release a person from prison. RATs generate these scores using algorithms trained to detect statistical relationships within massive datasets drawn from historical criminal legal system records. That may include data about type of conviction, length of incarceration, behavior while incarcerated, record of criminal legal system involvement, mental health records, gender, education level and age.

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