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RSS prison servicePrison tech: Mobiles blocked and bodies scanned
News Drug deals are often arranged using mobiles smuggled into prisons, with the prison service seizing 7,200 mobiles per year. In its response to the report it said: "His report highlights the complexities and interdependencies of tackling an issue... [08 Jul 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 13.06.08
Round-Up These days, the industry is on the verge of a massive rehabilitation programme with the UK's prison service. Who would have thought technology would be the answer to prison overcrowding? Inmates at London's largest prison, HMP Wandsworth, are... [13 Jun 2008]
Prisoners to gain IT skills
News The academy is a public/private partnership between HM Prison Service (HMPS) and construction company Bovis Lend Lease, networking giant Cisco and network cabling company Panduit. Inmates at London's largest prison, HMP Wandsworth, are getting the... [11 Jun 2008]
Phorm defends 'traffic-analysis' methods
News He added: "Interception is a serious offence, punishable by up to two years in prison. Intercepting traffic for spam-filtering purposes or for blocking denial-of-service attacks was a different matter, Clayton added, because Ripa contains an... [11 Apr 2008]
Dear silicon.com... iPlayer vs ISPs, rip off outsourcing, social networking…
Comment This week readers are getting riled up by 'rip off' government outsourcing deals (with one reader demanding prison for the culpable scoundrel…), the latest in the BBC iPlayer vs ISP spat, and social networks clamping down on sex offenders. [10 Apr 2008]
Corrections Department Upgrades System to Meet Changing Business Needs
White Paper The New Zealand Department of Corrections depends on its Integrated Offender Management System (IOMS) to manage offenders in prison, on parole, or serving community-based sentences. To more closely align IOMS with business needs, the department... [28 Feb 2008]
Spiralling costs derail £500m offender-tracking system
News Ambitious plans by the National Offender Management Service to fully unite prison and probation records have been scrapped in favour of a pared-down option after costs soared from an original estimate of £234m to £512m. [09 Jan 2008]
Building society installs anti-money laundering tech
News Failure to do so might result in a fine or a prison sentence of up to two years, if money laundering is found to have taken place. Newcastle Building Society is about to implement an anti-money-laundering (AML) system to comply with FSA regulations... [11 Dec 2007]
A litany of disasters has made shared services easy to swallow
Comment In just the last few months, government shared services operations have been launched at Defra, the DWP and the Prison Service. Sharing a service provides the opportunity to reduce waste and inefficiency by reorganising or reusing assets and... [20 Jun 2007]
CA: We're not the company we were five years ago
News The company is keen to put its past accounting problems - which last year saw former CEO Sanjay Kumar handed a prison sentence - behind it. During his keynote at the conference Swainson gave some details of the company's new Unified Service Model... [24 Apr 2007]
Nothing to fear over ID cards privacy, says passport chief
News A YouGov survey last year showed that 12 per cent of Brits would refuse to get an ID card even if it meant paying a fine or going to prison but Hall said people will voluntarily enrol for ID cards because it will make their day-to-day life easier... [06 Mar 2007]
Toxbot hackers sentenced by Dutch court
News The lead perpetrator was sentenced to two years in prison and the accomplice to 18 months, the Dutch public prosecution service said in a statement. A Dutch court has sentenced two hackers to prison for breaking into millions of computers worldwide... [01 Feb 2007]
Re:Viewing 2006: Photos of the year
Photo Most of the prisoners' print work will be for the HM Prison Service, though it's possible other government departments or outside businesses will contract work with them as well. To find out more, we sent silicon.com's Sylvia Carr to prison. [20 Dec 2006]
High Availability HP Solutions Play Key Role in Denmark's Fight Against Crime
White Paper Kriminalforsorgen is Denmark's Prison and Probation Service. Its job is to enforce the punishments imposed by the courts, and sophisticated IT has become the newest recruit in this fight against crime. [19 Dec 2006]
Cheat Sheet: The Computer Misuse Act
Cheat Sheet And while the tougher prison sentences for hacking and DoS should be applauded - and may prove a minor deterrent for small-time cyber crooks - criminal behaviour is never going to be eradicated by legislation alone. [29 Nov 2006]
