Criminal justice
2 unrolled threads about criminal justice, each one readable on a single page.
- Nov 19, 2025
White by Default? The viral posts were right. We scraped 5.5 million criminal records and 1.5 million mugshots from 39 states. 29% of Hispanics are being misclassified as White in official Departme...
SummaryResearchers analyzed 5.5 million criminal records and 1.5 million mugshots from 39 states, finding that approximately 29% of Hispanics are systematically misclassified as White in official Department of Corrections databases, even when Hispanic classification is explicitly available. Using machine learning trained on facial recognition and name demographics, they achieved 92.76% accuracy in racial classification and confirmed the misclassification bias is real, not anecdotal—correcting for it increases reported Hispanic criminal rates by 20-31% while decreasing White rates by 4-6%.11 tweets1 min read - Jan 10, 2026
🧵Prison didn’t change me at all. I changed prison. I went there to defend the Constitution on principle, and turned myself into an investigative reporter, uncovering a $5 billion scandal. Over the...
SummaryA political prisoner claims to have uncovered a $5 billion Bureau of Prisons scandal while incarcerated at FCI Miami, revealing the agency violated the First Step Act by holding inmates beyond their release dates. The author returned to the prison to oversee reforms and published a book about their experiences documenting systemic abuses.3 tweets1 min read