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Working on databases from prison

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849 points dvektor | 1 comments | 16 Jun 25 12:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.224s | source
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mlissner ◴[16 Jun 25 14:28 UTC] No.44289885[source]▶
Maine's remote work program is an incredibly promising development to prevent recidivism. The amazing thing about it is that it gives real jobs to prisoners that they can seamlessly continue after they get out of prison. Normally when you get out, it's impossible to get a job, and the clock is ticking. This leads to desperation, which leads to bad behavior.

There is a real risk of exploitation, but if it's properly managed, remote work for prisoners is one of the most hopeful things I've heard about the prison system. It gives people purpose while there and an avenue to success once they're out.

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antihero ◴[16 Jun 25 17:24 UTC] No.44291513[source]▶
It's amazing. Absolutely insane that people are incarcerated so long for non-violent drug crimes, though.

Turso also looks really neat for small Payload sites.

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ponector[dead post] ◴[16 Jun 25 18:49 UTC] No.44292324[source]▶
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cycomanic ◴[16 Jun 25 19:14 UTC] No.44292547[source]▶
And you take personal responsibility if someone innocent is convicted? Once you have executed someone there is no coming back. Or are you saying you're OK with some innocents being killed so you can save some money (taxes)?
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charcircuit ◴[16 Jun 25 19:40 UTC] No.44292738[source]▶
>Once you have executed someone there is no coming back.

Once you've taken 10 years of someone's life there is no giving that back either. As technology progresses the cost of recording evidence will go down which will help convict and prove the innocence of people.

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1. aspenmayer ◴[16 Jun 25 22:14 UTC] No.44293888[source]▶
> As technology progresses the cost of recording evidence will go down which will help convict and prove the innocence of people.

Minority Report is a counterfactual to this claim. The future is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed. Technology is a tool to extend one’s grasp to meet one’s reach, and vice versa, and is a tool that serves power. Those with power are best able to bend tools to their ends, just or unjust.

> It is the duty of the poor to support and sustain the rich in their power and idleness. In doing so, they have to work before the laws' majestic equality, which forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anatole_France