Pretrial risk assessment algorithms are intended to help judges make more informed decisions, but researchers have raised concerns not only about the fairness and accuracy of the tools themselves, but ...

Quealth gives smartphone owners the chance to assess their risk of developing type 2 diabetes, six forms of cancer, cardiovascular disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (lung disease) and ...

A new algorithm aims to assess the likelihood of defendants being treated unfairly in court. The tool considers details that ought to be immaterial to the ruling — such as the judge’s and defendant’s ...

Corrections officers arrive for a shift at the State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, which is set to bring in inmates from other state prisons that could close, Friday, Jan. 13, ...

The tide is turning against mass incarceration, but a flawed computer program threatens to put even more Pennsylvanians behind bars based on racially-biased data and arbitrary factors like age and ...

Circuit Court of Cook County chief judge Timothy Evans has walked a fine line between respecting his judges' autonomy in setting bond and recommending new computerized assessments for them to consider ...

Like the clairvoyants in the film “Minority Report,” computer-generated risk assessment algorithms aim to predict the likelihood that someone will commit crime in the future. These risk assessment ...

When people participate in studies of aging, they often want to know what their individual risks of developing dementia from Alzheimer's disease are. Washington University researchers have developed ...