prison service
RSS prison service'Incompetent': Watchdog's verdict on prisoner database
News Chair of the PAC, Edward Leigh, said of the programme that was designed to implement a single database between the Prison Service and the National Probation Service: "Even we were... [03 Nov 2009]
Ageing probation tech failing to keep tabs on prisoners
News A report by the National Offender Management Service into the justice system's handling of Sonnex found that on his release from prison in February last year, where he had been serving a term for assault... [11 Jun 2009]
Prisoner database hit by delays, budget blowout
News A single offender database is technically realisable but Noms did not adequately explore other potential solutions and underestimated the cost of customising the software it had already selected for the Prison... [12 Mar 2009]
CPS refusal pushes Nasa hacker step closer to extradition
News McKinnon faces up to 70 years in a maximum security prison if convicted of hacking charges under US law. The Crown Prosecution Service has decided it will not prosecute self-confessed Nasa hacker Gary... [27 Feb 2009]
Nasa hacker says will plead guilty in UK
News McKinnon faces up to 70 years in prison if found guilty by a US court and, as it stands, would serve his sentence in the US. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) told ZDNet UK on Monday that it had... [13 Jan 2009]
HP-EDS job cuts: "It's business as normal"
News According to the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), which represents more than 2,000 EDS staff in the UK, the services provider has contracts with the Ministry of Defence (MoD), the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), the... [09 Oct 2008]
Prisoners' phone bills too high says watchdog
News Ofcom noted: "Our analysis shows that in Her Majesty's Prison Service (HMPS) and the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) managed prisons, the average price of a call to a UK... [23 Sep 2008]
Nonprofit Prison-Industry Company Builds ERP System at Half the Cost of Alternatives
White Paper Prison Rehabilitative Industries and Diversified Enterprises (PRIDE) provides job training and support for prisoners and ex-offenders in Florida. With 40 diverse manufacturing and service divisions, the... [19 Sep 2008]
Prison 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... [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?... [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... [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,... [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... [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... [29 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... [09 Jan 2008]
