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Shattering psychopath stereotypes

Once a week, Malini Aisola drives the hour from Madison to the Waupun Correctional Institution.

The 25-year-old graduate student at UW-Madison then questions incarcerated men on topics such as their family relationships and their sexual histories.

Aisola’s goal? Identifying inmates whose callousness, lack of conscience and skill at manipulation indicate they are psychopaths.