Zuckerberg-Backed Data Trove Exposes the Injustices of Criminal Justice [Wired.com]

Samantha Sangenito 5/25/174:00 AM

AMY BACH WAS researching her book about the US court system when she met a woman named Sharon in Quitman County, Mississippi. One July day in 2001, Sharon said, her boyfriend took her under a bridge and beat her senseless with a tire iron. Sharon passed out numerous times before her niece intervened and stopped the man from killing her. In photos from the emergency room after the attack, Sharon’s brown, almond-shaped eyes are swollen shut. She reported the crime to the police, who wrote up an aggravated assault report.

[For more of this story, written by Issie Lapowsky, go to https://www.wired.com/2017/05/...es-criminal-justice/]

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