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A 'black box' AI system has been influencing criminal justice decisions for over two decades – it's time to open it up

Justice systems around the world are using artificial intelligence (AI) to assess people with criminal convictions. These AI technologies rely on machine learning algorithms and their key purpose is to predict the risk of reoffending. They influence decisions made by the courts and prisons and by parole and probation officers.

The Conversation

Margarito Flores, Chicago cocaine kingpin who helped bring down El Chapo, will teach cops how to catch drug traffickers

One of the notorious Flores twins is to lead a seminar at the Kane County sheriff’s office — “a rare chance for us to get into the mind of the people we are trying to find,” an official says.

Chicago Sun-Times

Donald Trump is the first former president arrested on federal charges. Can he still run in 2024?

Trump faces the possibility of two federal indictments and criminal and civil cases in several states

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Is Donald Trump going to prison?

The former president is at the centre of several federal investigations and criminal cases

The Independent UK

United States is an "outlaw superpower"

There's still time to bring our outlaw country back into united community of nations confronting looming horrors

Salon

'This has become a sacred alley.' The face of Emad Shargi imprisoned in Iran

A mural in Washington, D.C. depicts Americans wrongfully detained abroad and fades with time to represent passing days. Neda Sharghi's brother Emad imprisoned in Iran is one of those faces.

WEKU

Man cleared of murdering wife in Cyprus ‘not getting hopes up’ ahead of sentence

David Hunter, 76, may be able to leave prison this week after being found guilty of manslaughter but cleared of premeditated murder.

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Michael K Williams: Man sentenced to prison in connection with death of The Wire star

‘The Wire’ co-creator David Simon had urged leniency in a letter to the judge

The Independent UK

Michael K Williams: drug dealer in overdose death of Wire actor sentenced to 30 months in prison

Williams’ nephew and The Wire creator David Simon spoke on behalf of Carlos Macci, 72, who pleaded guilty to conspiring to possessing and distributing narcotics

The Guardian - AU

Man sentenced to prison for defrauding US border wall supporters

Timothy Shea receives the longest prison sentence yet for his participation in the ‘We Build the Wall’ scheme.

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Michael K. Williams' nephew urges compassion for defendant at sentencing related to actor's death

A 71-year-old man linked to a crew of drug dealers blamed in the death of actor Michael K

The Independent UK

Top lieutenant for drug kingpin ‘El Chapo’ gets more than 19 years in federal prison

Felipe Cabrera Sarabia, known as “The Engineer,” had pleaded guilty to a single count in a sweeping indictment that targeted the top hierarchy of the Sinaloa Cartel.

Chicago Sun-Times

Two brothers file lawsuits accusing Chicago detectives of framing them for murder out of revenge, torturing them into confessing

Reginald Henderson and Sean Tyler, who both spent 25 years in prison, contend in federal lawsuits filed Tuesday that detectives targeted them because Tyler had testified for the defense in a case they had handled in 1991.

Chicago Sun-Times

Decades in prison for 3 sentenced in North Dakota fentanyl trafficking probe

Three more men charged in connection with an alleged international fentanyl ring have been sentenced this month to decades in federal prison

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Colorado businessman gets over 5 years in prison for 'We Build The Wall' fundraiser fraud

A Colorado businessman convicted of fraudulently siphoning hundreds of thousands of dollars from an online fundraiser to build a wall along the U.S. southern border has been sentenced to five years and three months in prison

The Independent UK

The death of an intellectually disabled inmate at Virginia prison is drawing FBI scrutiny, document shows

The FBI is looking into the death of an intellectually disabled inmate who died at a Virginia prison and whom the agency identified as “a possible victim of a crime.”

The Independent UK

Ecuador suspends rights of assembly in some areas, deploys soldiers to prisons amid violence wave

Ecuador President Guillermo Lasso is again making use of the executive’s power to suspend some of people’s rights and mobilize the military in an attempt to quell the most recent spike in violence in the South American country

WEKU

Marine veteran Trevor Reed was wounded fighting in Ukraine

The U.S. Marine veteran was freed from Russian prison in a prisoner swap last year. Now he has sustained an injury while fighting in Ukraine, the State Department said.

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The Independent UK

Judge says he plans to sentence gynecologist who sexually abused patients to 20 years in prison

A federal judge says he plans to sentence a former gynecologist who sexually abused dozens of patients for over two decades at prestigious New York hospitals to 20 years in prison

The Guardian - US

US gynecologist Robert Hadden sentenced to 20 years in prison for abusing patients

Prosecutors described Hadden as a ‘predator in a white coat’, saying he lured out-of-state patients to New York to abuse them

The Independent UK

Trevor Reed, US Marine freed from Russia in prisoner swap, injured fighting in Ukraine

American headed to Germany for medical treatment

The Independent UK

Gynecologist who sexually abused dozens of patients is sentenced to 20 years in prison

A federal judge has given a 20-year sentence to a gynecologist who sexually abused dozens of patients for over two decades at prestigious New York hospitals

The Independent UK

Myanmar's military plans to move Suu Kyi to house arrest, according to unofficial reports

Reports from Myanmar say its military-controlled government plans to transfer the country’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi from a prison in the capital of Naypyitaw to home confinement as part of an act of of clemency to be granted prisoners next week

The Independent UK

Is Donald Trump going to prison?

The former president is at the centre of several federal investigations and criminal cases

The Guardian - US

‘Insult to his victims’: outrage as warlord appointed ‘peace manager’ in Colombia

Salvatore Mancuso, who is imprisoned in US, is responsible for more than 300 killings and is accused of about 75,000 crimes

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