Black prisoners are assigned harsher living conditions in Ontario jails—thanks to AI ⋆ The Breach
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Ontario jails are using a program that claims it can predict prisoners’ behaviour, disproportionately putting Black prisoners in higher-security facilities
  • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Sort of, but you have cause and effect out of order.

    It is well understood that poverty is correlated to crime.

    And that racailized people are more often living in poverty.

    But underlying all of that is societal failures, not some inherent flaws of those people’s racial identity.

    • Arcanepotato@crazypeople.onlineEnglish
      6·
      1 month ago

      It’s not even that in this case. They discuss it in the article. We’re talking about people in jail pre-trial. They haven’t even been convicted yet.

    • streetfestival@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      1 month ago

      But underlying all of that is societal failures, not some inherent flaws of those people’s racial identity.

      Well said! Indeed, the commenter in question is straying from the subject of OP