Immoral Incarceration: How a Technological Glitch is Holding Arizona Prisoners Past Their Proper Release Date

The following blog discusses an Arizona prison’s purchase of Arizona Correctional Information System (“ACIS”) software and the system’s subsequent incompatibility with recent legislation seeking to reduce sentences for non-violent drug offenders. The inability of ACIS to re-calculate these individuals’ new release dates has resulted in the wrongful imprisonment of hundreds of incarcerated persons otherwise eligible for earlier release. … Read More Immoral Incarceration: How a Technological Glitch is Holding Arizona Prisoners Past Their Proper Release Date