and what an insult to science, justice and law it is that he's anywhere near a courtroom. Absolutely fuck this guy.
Kiehl, for his part, accepts that the criminal justice system is biased, but said that he believes it is biased toward people of low socioeconomic status, not race.
“Because if you go to rural Ohio, it’s all Caucasians who are low [socioeconomic status] that are there, but if you go to a city where there’s low [socioeconomic status] dominated by other minorities, then you’re going to get that in the [prison] system, and it is just so biased in that way,” he said.
In fact, data shows that Black people are more than five times more likely to be incarcerated in Ohio than white people. For almost a century, people of color have been disproportionately incarcerated in the US when compared with white people, and racial disparities have amplified since incarceration rates began rising in the 1970s.
Kiehl also told me there could be “a lot of benefit” to scanning the brains of everyone incarcerated in Chicago’s Cook county jail – America’s largest jail system – to see who is most predisposed to violence, which would inform “who should get out and who should stay”. But he acknowledged that local officials would face opposition from people who he had identified as “high risk” for committing new crimes.
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