The Three Strikes Project is legal clinical seminar where law students represent individuals serving life sentences for non-violent offenses under California’s Three Strikes Law. Lawyers assist district attorney’s offices throughout the state who are seeking opportunities to safely and effectively reduce California’s prison population through Prosecutor Initiated Resentencing (PIR). But, given that there are over 100,000 people in California’s prisons, lawyers need efficient and accurate ways to identify those who are eligible for PIR instead of manually reviewing piles of paperwork. Redo.io’s open-source eligibility tool helps lawyers filter their caseload and apply their expertise efficiently. We are currently under a contract with Stanford Law to develop this application.

A rules-based and deterministic model that generates cohorts of individuals eligible for PIR based on criteria established by district attorney’s offices.

What it is:

• A deterministic model with a rules-based framework designed by legal experts
• Easily interpretable and explainable for non-technical users and audience
• Responsive to user requests, i.e. an attorney can request changes to the eligibility criteria and see updated results

What it is not:

• A black box predictive model
• A decision-maker that determines the cases that are ultimately resentenced by the courts

• Ingest the demographics, current offenses and prior offenses of individuals in California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) custody
• Run the eligibility model (with selection criteria and scenarios designed by legal experts)
• Return a cohort of individuals eligible for PIR
• Provide attorneys easy-to-understand personal profiles of each candidate
• Re-run the eligibility model when new data on the prison population is released

Citation

If you make use of our dataset(s) or code, please cite our work as follows:

“Redo.io. resentencing-data-initiative (Version 1.0.0) [Computer software]. https://github.com/redoio/resentencing_data_initiative/“

@software{Redo_io_resentencing-data-initiative, author = {{Redo.io}}, title = {{resentencing-data-initiative}}, url = {https://github.com/redoio/resentencing_data_initiative/}, version = {1.0.0}}

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