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A JailTracker Tracker: monitoring the treatment of people incarcerated in US jails
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Harrison County search issue #1

Closed eenblam closed 3 months ago

eenblam commented 4 years ago

https://omsweb.public-safety-cloud.com/jtclientweb/jailtracker/index/HARRISON_COUNTY_JAIL_MS

Harrison County only returns results if you provide at least two characters to the Last Name search field.

Magnitude

For last names not requiring non-ASCII characters, this requires 26*26=676 requests. (The search seems to be case-insensitive.)

This isn't too bad - we might receive that many inmate summaries in our initial GetInmates request for a different county, which is then multiplied by some factor based on number of charges and number of cases! So we might have an average of 3 requests per inmate anyway.

So, if the Harrison County Jail is sparsely populated, this adds a lot of additional requests to make each hour. If it's especially full, then it's only a minor addition.

Results Returned

Searching in this fashion seems to return all results regardless of Booking Date and Release Date. To avoid revisiting information, it might be helpful to limit the request somewhat. For example, after building an initial data set, we could exclude stale Release Dates.

eenblam commented 3 months ago

This no longer seems to be the case! Visiting the above URL now provides a list of inmates.