How bad data traps people in the US justice system | Clementine Jacoby

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🗓️ 13 January 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Right now, hundreds of thousands of people are "stuck" in the US criminal justice system. They've completed all of their requirements for release, but nobody knows it because the system is run on old databases that don't talk to each other. TED Fellow Clementine Jacoby describes how we can fix it -- bringing thousands of people home, reducing costs and improving public safety along the way.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Ted Talks daily, I'm Elise Hugh.
0:07.0	Good old fashioned bureaucracy is keeping people locked up or stuck on probation when they
0:12.4	don't need to be.
0:14.0	Broken processes are holding people back.
0:16.9	In her talk at Ted 2022, Criminal Justice Tech Entrepreneur Clementine Jacobi has remarkably
0:22.7	simple tools that can actually help people who need it and relieve an overtaxed criminal
0:28.3	justice system.
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