Cell game: Novel software helping inmates find a home
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October 25, 2017
A university engineering department has developed what amounts to a Tinder app for criminals — a computer program that matches inmates with suitable prisons.
The software, unique in the corrections field, has saved the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections about $3 million in its first year. Officials said it has resulted in fewer prison assaults, shortened wait times for treatment programs by nearly two months, reduced the number of prison transfers and lightened the workload of corrections staff.
Corrections officials marvel that nobody thought of it sooner.
"It's pretty amazing, and what w...
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