Inmate Assignment Decision Support System
The Optamo team has developed the first of its kind, Inmate Assignment Decision Support System (IADSS). IADSS is a revolutionary web-based decision support system which enables a correctional system to simultaneously assign inmates to correctional institutions and schedule their treatment programs while considering all business rules and policy regulations. The state-of-the-art advanced analytics behind IADSS enables a correctional agency to consider multitude of factors affecting the assignment of inmates and scheduling their rehabilitation program. IADSS is a productivity enhancement system which enables a correctional system to:
- improve social justice,
- reduce recidivism by assigning inmates close to their homes,
- minimize operational costs,
- reduce inmate population,
- optimize use of resources,
- minimize inmate movement during prison terms,
- reduce treatment program waiting lists,
- improve security.
IADSS is implemented in Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PADOC) and has been used for the daily assignment of the inmates since September 2016. IADSS has enabled the PADOC to improve social justice by making unbiased assignments of inmates to prisons and providing prisoners unbiased access to treatment program resources. Moreover, it has helped the prisoners to become eligible for parole significantly faster than before. The realized quantified saving of using IADSS at the PADOC is nearly $3,000,000 annually and the projected saving over the next five years is over $19,000,000. More information can be found in the following videos: