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Can Data Keep People Out of Prison? - Freakonomics

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Clementine Jacoby went from performing in a circus to founding a nonprofit that works to shrink the prison population. Comments SHARE THIS EPISODE Stay up-to-date on all our shows. We promise no spam. My guest today, Clementine Jacoby, is spearheading a transformation of the criminal justice system. How is a 31-year-old woman who had never worked in this area before making such an outsized impact? By using data in ways it’s never been used before in criminal justice. JACOBY: We started checking the data to try to find like, where did we go wrong? And it turns out we hadn’t gone wrong. There were thousands of people who were past their release dates. Welcome to People I (Mostly) Admire, with Steve Levitt. Clementine Jacoby started her nonprofit called Recidiviz around the same time I started my RISC center at the University of Chicago. We’re both trying to change criminal justice. And she’s having a lot more success than I am. I’m curious to hear how she’s made so much happen so quickly

Episode Transcript My guest today, Clementine Jacoby, is spearheading a transformation of the criminal justice system. How is a 31-year-old woman who had never worked in this area before making such an outsized impact? By using data in ways it’s never been used before in criminal justice. JACOBY: We started checking the data to try to find like, where did we go wrong? And it turns out we hadn’t gone wrong. There were thousands of people who were past their release dates. Welcome to People I (Mostly) Admire , with Steve Levitt. Clementine Jacoby started her nonprofit called Recidivi

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