Recidiviz builds a criminal justice data platform and operational assistants used across 19 US states, consolidating fragmented state data to help agencies safely reduce incarceration.
Recidiviz is a criminal justice data platform that partners with state agencies to consolidate fragmented criminal justice data into unified systems, enabling data-driven decisions that safely reduce incarceration. The engineering work spans data infrastructure, AI/ML models, data consolidation and integration, and analytics for policy and decision support - applied to some of the most consequential and technically untidy data environments in American public life.
Its product suite consists of digital assistants built for operational use in corrections: Supervision Assistant, Facilities Assistant, Case Planning Assistant, and Sentencing Assistant, each designed to streamline a distinct workflow - from parole operations to facilities management to sentencing decisions - and to improve outcomes within it. The platform is trusted across 19 states and supports departments whose budgets run to billions of dollars and operations touching tens of thousands of incarcerated individuals.
The measurable results are substantial. Since launching, more than 250,000 people have been moved closer to freedom; in Idaho alone, 70,000 people returned to their communities sooner, alongside an estimated $1.1 billion in cost savings. Teams work side-by-side with corrections leaders, justice-impacted individuals, and ecosystem partners, with an emphasis on evidence-based practice, measuring what works, and expanding community re-entry and earned release opportunities.
Recidiviz's stated aim is a smaller, safer, fairer justice system - a mission that demands both rigorous data engineering and the judgement to apply it well. For engineers who want their work to be measured in outcomes rather than outputs, few problems of comparable scale and difficulty exist in the public sector.
