Iowa Department of Corrections uses SAS® Viya in the cloud to better manage supervised populations, make informed decisions and improve public safety
On Friday nights in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the weekend hadn’t begun for workers at the Iowa Department of Corrections (DOC). Instead, a half-dozen central office team members worked late to key in COVID testing for the department’s overly taxed nursing staff.
This task was just one of many manual, time-consuming processes that correctional agencies across the country attend to. Long-existing issues in prisons – such as health care, violence, recidivism, staff safety and retention – were made worse by the pandemic, leaving corrections agencies with tough decisions to make and fewer staff to make them.
The Iowa DOC, which manages nine prisons, realized the answer was already in front of them: data.
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