"Software Bug Keeping Hundreds of Inmates in Arizona Prisons Beyond Release Dates" - No, it is bureaucracy and corruption that is Keeping Hundreds of Inmates in Arizona Prisons Beyond Release Dates, and anyone who has the remotest idea about how such contracts are awarded knows why.
How are such contracts awarded? Would you have time to explain?
I was just thinking that the executives at the prison, are clueless about software, and likely couldn't hire a competent consultancy agency, even if they wanted to.
And also, that the prison execs anyway are generally ok with bugs like this one — which keeps people longer in prison. I presume the prisons make more money, with more prisoners. (Although now some prison staff need to do extra manual work, but someone wrote elsewhere that that was only for squeaky wheels prisoners, i.e. those who knew enough to complain.)
And maybe the consultancy agency prefers to build software that actually never starts working completely, so they can continue billing the prisons forever?
It's a bit as if the prisons, and the consultancy agency, cooperated with each other, both of them making money, by exploiting the defenseless prisoners?
