MediaJustice

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77%

A ProPublica study found that Black people were 77% more likely than others to be incorrectly flagged as likely to commit a future violent offense by algorithmic tools.

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140%

The percentage increase in the use of electronic monitoring in the past decade.

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41

According to research conducted by the Media Mobilizing Project, 41 states and Washington D.C. have at least one county using a pretrial risk assessment tool.

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