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The Michigan Department of Corrections last week announced a new partnership aimed at using the state\u2019s data to further lower its recidivism rate.<\/span><\/p>\n

Officials on Thursday said that a three-year contract with <\/span>Recidiviz<\/span><\/a>, a nonprofit that develops a data platform for corrections departments, could help to identify which programs are working well and which hidden factors might be leading people back to prison.<\/span><\/p>\n

The nonprofit, which claims on its website to work with five other states \u2014 Idaho, North Dakota, Missouri, Tennessee and Pennsylvania \u2014 markets its platform as a solution for government\u2019s unwieldy and uneven reporting structures.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cCriminal justice analysis today is often done manually, which makes it expensive and time consuming,\u201d the group\u2019s website reads. \u201cDelays can have significant consequences, including an inability to recognize trends as they appear.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Chris Gautz, a spokesperson for the Michigan corrections department, told StateScoop the first phase of work will be to wrangle the state\u2019s data.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of what they\u2019re doing is taking the data that we have and that we collect and putting it in a way that\u2019s going to be really useful for us,\u201d Gautz said. \u201cIt\u2019s stuff that we all have but we may not have put it in a digestible way or looked at it in a certain way or even have the technological abilities to do that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He said the department is sometimes limited by its \u201cvery antiquated\u201d computer systems.<\/span><\/p>\n

The project will endeavor to further reduce a recidivism rate that is already among the lowest in the country, Gautz said. But at 26.6%, Michigan still has plenty of room for improvement.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gautz said the department hopes Recidiviz can help the state to identify factors \u2014 such as certain programs, geographical locations that may lack programs or type of crime \u2014 that might contribute to someone\u2019s decision to reoffend.<\/span><\/p>\n

He pointed to the state\u2019s \u201cvocational villages,\u201d which teach inmates trades like masonry, plumbing and welding, as an example of the shift in approach that occurred in the department when Director Heidi Washington took over in 2015. He said the department has career counselors who help former inmates find employment after they\u2019re released.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve really ramped up the kind of things we\u2019re doing to help parolees in terms of using new evidence-based practices and techniques,\u201d he said. \u201cThe first step is to onboard all of that data, and there\u2019s a lot of it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Pennsylvania officials last month announced a similar partnership<\/a> with Recidiviz to develop a public data dashboard hoped to improve transparency of the corrections department’s operations. The dashboard, which illustrates statistics using interactive graphics, includes three main categories \u2014 prisons, parole and racial disparities. The racial disparities tab, for example, shows that “Black Pennsylvanians are 6.5 times as likely to be under DOC control as their white counterparts,” and goes on to explain some of the measures the state is taking, such as Gov. Tom Wolf’s Clean Slate law, which removed roughly 35 million low-level criminal offenses from records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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