🌹 Open Sentencing helps expose bias and empowers public defenders to address racial disparities in the judicial system directly. People in the Black community are faced with harsher downstream effects than other races for similar sentences. This tool will analyze case information and provide defenders with insights, bias indicators, and connections. We can also use this to see trends and bias from the criminal justice system. This is part of the Call for Code for Racial Justice project at IBM.

At this event you will learn about the Open Sentencing project and what technologies support this tool. You will see how IBM is using AI technology to help fight against racial injustices and how you can contribute to these projects.

Technology: OSS, full stack (Java and Python)

👩‍💻 Introduction to Call for Code for Racial Justice and specifically the Open Sentencing project. Why this is important and the background of the project.

🧭 Take a deep dive on how we built this tool and the AI technology that analyzes the data. Finally how you can get involved and contribute to this project.

This IBM Developer event is open to everyone, and we encourage everyone to join the conversation. When we all have empathy for others, we can build amazing things that benefit everyone.

Ann Marie Fred, IBM
Benjamin Chance, IBM
Noah Chasek-MacFoy, IBM
Siranjeevi Raman, IBM
Stacy Forsyth, IBM

Open Sentencing; an open source project for Call for Code for Racial Justice