Whistleblowers: Inflexible prison software says inmates due for release should be kept locked up behind bars
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Updated Prison inmates in Arizona who should be eligible for release remain incarcerated because the state s inmate management software can t handle sentence adjustments, it is claimed.
According to public radio station KJZZ, unidentified whistleblowers within the Arizona Department of Corrections revealed the software problem, which is said to have been known by department IT leaders since 2019.
The software, ACIS (Arizona Correctional Information System), implemented in 2019 at a cost of $24m by IT biz Business & Decision, North America, is said to contain a module for calculating the release dates of inmates.