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Committee: Department of Corrections still working to enable recidivism tracking after system rollout
Summary
Department of Corrections staff told the Joint Legislative Performance Audit and Oversight Committee that all but one recommendation from a 2016 audit of its offender treatment program have been addressed. The remaining item concerns the department’s ability to track benchmarks and recidivism using its offender management system; staff said a 2025/
The Joint Legislative Performance Audit and Oversight Committee heard on the status of a 2016 performance audit of the Department of Corrections’ offender treatment program, where agency staff said one audit item remains unresolved.
Jane Graham, communications and legislative affairs liaison for the Department of Corrections, told the committee the audit’s outstanding item concerns “the mechanism for us to be able to track benchmarks, progress, recidivism, with the *** offender treatment program.” She said the department upgraded its offender management system in the spring to Chorus (version 8) from an older version 4 but that the rollout has produced…
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