How Predictive Modeling Designs Prisons Before Children Can Read: The Hidden Architecture of Mass Incarceration
Detailed Breakdown The location of prisons isn’t determined by where crimes happen—it’s strategically planned using predictive modeling based on early educational data, specifically 3rd-grade reading scores. Neighborhoods where children fail to read at grade level by age 8 get flagged, not for intervention or additional support, but as future sites for prisons. Rather than investing […]