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Whistleblowers: Software Bug Keeping Hundreds of Arizona Prisoners Beyond Release Dates
Loaded on Aug. 1, 2021
by Jimmy Jenkins
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2021, page 14
Filed under:
Electronic Communictions Privacy Act.
Location:
Arizona.
by Jimmy Jenkins, KJZZ.org
According to Arizona Department of Corrections whistleblowers, hundreds of incarcerated people who should be eligible for release are being held in prison because the prisoner management software cannot interpret current sentencing laws.
KJZZ is not naming the whistleblowers because they fear retaliation. The employees said they ...
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