Corrections Data

Gladyse Taylor, former Deputy Director for the Illinois Department of Corrections will talk about how data is created, used, and shared in the Corrections space.

Gladyse Taylor served as Assistant Director for the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) from May 2010 to May 2019. During her tenure, Ms. Taylor has been the business process engineer for the development of the State’s Offender 360 (adult offender management “system of record”) and Youth 360 (youth management “system of record”). The objective focused on increasing the effectiveness of service delivery to the adult and juvenile populations for the both State agencies.

The O360 and Y360 are cloud-hosted, data-driven offender and youth management platforms designed to optimize population management throughout the offender’s and youth’s justice involved lifecycle by providing a comprehensive approach for making effective and informed decisions regarding placement, rehabilitation and release. Both platforms mirror an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) model and demonstrated some very progressive thinking across multiple state agencies. The platform development has allowed the State to implement best practices by reducing time on duplicating system configurations among State agencies, developing and documenting standard system processes, testing and training and significantly reducing risks by eliminating the redundant records. The systems include an enterprise service data sharing portal; Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) that provides the capacity for two-way data sharing between justice-involved and human services agencies at both the county and state levels enabling these entities to share demographic, criminal history, medical and mental health and offender assessments entering State custody and being released or discharged to the community. Some other platform attributes include:

• Automated workflows. The systems automate workflows, enforce business rules that reduce duplicate data entry across multiple systems, and reduce the need to print and store permanent offender records that are costly to use and maintain.
• Real time access. The systems operate in real time (or next to real time), without relying on periodic updates.
• Environment. Both solutions contain separate environments for development, user-acceptance testing and production and have common databases that support all applications with a consistent look and feel for each module.

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