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Idaho DOC asks Legislature to fund expansion of Recidiviz data tools for prisons and supervision
Summary
The Idaho Department of Correction asked the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee to fund ongoing development of Recidiviz tools that have been used in probation and parole and are proposed for use inside prisons; agency leaders said the nonprofit partnership leverages private philanthropic matching but committee members asked for outcome data.
The Idaho Department of Correction requested ongoing funding to expand its partnership with Recidiviz, a nonprofit data-aggregation and analytics group, to bring tools now used by probation and parole into the state prison case-management environment.
Noah Peterson, budget and policy analyst with the Legislative Services Office, told the committee the Management Services Division received an appropriation tied to a recidivism case‑management software effort and that prior one‑time federal funding had supported initial work. He did not provide hard ROI figures for the committee during the presentation.
Director Josh Tewalt described Recidiviz as a nonprofit technology partner that pulls data from disparate, legacy systems, automates time‑consuming…
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