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Algorithms · December 2015

A Sentencing Bug Quietly Freed Up to 3,200 Inmates Early

A sentencing-calculation bug ran unpatched for 13 years, handing good-behavior credit to inmates who could not legally earn it and freeing up to 3,200 people early, one of them 600 days early.

Source: BBC

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