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A risk assessment algorithm helped decide who went to prison

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A tool called COMPAS was used in U.S. courts to predict whether a person would reoffend. An investigation by ProPublica found Black defendants were flagged as high-risk at nearly twice the rate of white defendants with similar records.

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ProPublica, Machine Bias, 2016

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