Arizona Software Glitch Keeps Prisoners Incarcerated, Until the Whistleblowers Showed Up
In a story straight out of a dystopian novel, a faulty computer system has kept Arizona prisoners locked up beyond their release date. A government contractor, Business & Decision, North America, built a system that is supposed to calculate each person’s release date. In exchange, the contractor received $24 million from the state. The system, however, didn’t work, leaving hundreds of people behind bars who should have been freed. Two...