How Algorithms Could Help Keep People Out of Jail

Steve Leifman knew Miami-Dade’s courts had a problem. Ten years ago the longtime jurist realized that his county was putting too many ­people with mental health problems in jail. So he set up a psychiatric training program for 4,700 police officers and a new system to send people to counseling. The incarcerated population plummeted; the county shut down an entire jail.

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