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by Empact 5525 days ago
Would definitely like to know the nature of the crime for each in the "correct/incorrect" view.

E.g. for this guy: http://violentornot.com/inmate/44200/

The data would be: [1]:MURDER 1ST DEGREE [2]:SOLICITATION [3]:DANGER/ REPETIT/ ENHANCE http://www.azcorrections.gov/inmate_datasearch/results.aspx?...

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Yes, that's coming for sure. I was focusing first on scraping if they were violent and then making sense of the data. There are a ton of other states too, and they are for the most part completely different. So linking to the docket was all that I could do in just the few days I have had a chance to work on it :P

Edit: The way it checks if it's violent or not is by checking the "Crime info" column. For the inmate you linked to he is D/R-1, or marked as dangerous. Occasionally I've seen murderers marked as ND, which means not dangerous. Not sure what that's about....