Whistleblowers at the Arizona Department of Corrections say hundreds of incarcerated people who should be eligible for release are being held in prison because the inmate management software can't interpret current sentencing laws. (kjzzphoenix)
upon the completion of programming in state prisons. Gov. Ducey signed the bill in June of 2019.
“Currently this calculation is not in ACIS at all,” the report states. “ACIS can calculate 1 earned credit for every 6 days served, but this is a new calculation.” But sources say the department isn’t even scratching the surface of the entire number of eligible inmates. In the meantime, Lamoreaux confirmed the “data is being calculated manually and then entered into the system.”
“It was Thanksgiving weekend,” one source recalled. “We were killing ourselves working on it, but every person associated with the software rollout begged Profiri not to go live.” The sources said the ACIS software also makes it difficult for employees to correct errors once they have been identified.