(Re)locating trauma: Mapping the dangers of carceral algorithms through stories of incarceration

FAIN: DOC-299600-24

Bucknell University (Lewisburg, PA 17837-2005)
Vanessa Massaro (Project Director: October 2023 to present)
Darakhshan Mir (Co Project Director: March 2024 to present)
Nathan Ryan (Co Project Director: March 2024 to present)

Research and analysis of the impact of algorithmic decision-making tools on the lives of incarcerated people within and outside of Pennsylvania’s state corrections system.  

This project will contribute to a growing effort in critical data studies to focus analysis on institutions and their use of algorithmic tools that pose structural harms to prisoners, countering the institutional focus on assessing the (racialized) “risk” individuals pose to the institution and, by extension, society. By examining the limitations and consequent dangers of existing algorithmic tools, this project aims to address how alternative data-informed approaches could lead to the rehabilitation and liberation of incarcerated people.