Across the nation, judges, probation and parole officers are increasingly using algorithms to assess a criminal defendant’s likelihood of becoming a recidivist – a term used to describe criminals who ...

How We Acquired the Data We chose to examine the COMPAS algorithm because it is one of the most popular scores used nationwide and is increasingly being used in pretrial and sentencing, the so-called ...

Because the tool is a "trade secret," there is no way for the public to evaluate whether COMPAS Re-entry makes errors or exhibits systemic bias. Getty Images. Every parole hearing in New York has one ...

In courtrooms across the United States, it has become commonplace for judges to be provided with “risk assessment” reports—algorithmically-generated scores assigned to criminals meant to gauge the ...