Award-winning work that began as a part-time passion project for a group of Google engineers is bringing corrections operations into the 21st century and thus helping tens of thousands move out of the system, says a recent story in Governing.

But it is not just – as you might think at first – a ‘nerdy’ story about data and data systems. This quite amazing story is really about family.. A long time ago, when Clementine Jacoby was a child, her 19-year-old uncle was sent to jail for ten years for a non-violent offence. He came back when she was 15, but couldn’t seem to escape the clutches of the corrections system. A few months after being released from jail, he was sent back for a non-violent parole violation.