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News Remember the massive data loss last year that saw the records of more than 84,000 prisoners go missing when a USB stick was lost by a Home Office contractor? More details on the loss have emerged this week, with the Home... [27 Aug 2009]
Home Office CIO on taming tech and why ID cards are good news
Comment Security has also been a pressing question for the Home Office following a breach of the Data Protection Act last year, when its contractor PA Consulting lost the personal details of 84,000 prisoners. [10 Jul 2009]
Ministry of Justice slashes IT bill by £110m
News But problems with justice system's IT remain: the National Association of Probation Officers recently told silicon.com that ageing offender management systems are making it to difficult to protect the public when... [16 Jun 2009]
Ageing probation tech failing to keep tabs on prisoners
News Failure to update the ageing IT system that helps manage offenders in the UK is making it difficult for the probation service to protect the public when prisoners are released into the community. For instance, the... [11 Jun 2009]
Prisoner database hit by delays, budget blowout
News An IT project designed to give a single overview of the UK's prisoners has been beset by delays and overspending. The National Offender Management Information System (C-Nomis) was intended to replace old case management... [12 Mar 2009]
Info watchdog: Home Office guilty of data protection breach
News Privacy watchdog the Information Commissioner's Office has found the Home Office to have breached data-protection law over the loss of 84,000 prisoners' data. Although the data was lost by contractor PA Consulting, as... [23 Jan 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.01.09
Round-Up Thus it may be time for script writers to rethink their tired prison clichés and update them for the 21st century and make their movies more You've Got Mail and less 'You've got 20 years in a cell with a nutter'.silicon.com revealed this... [16 Jan 2009]
Job-hunting prisoners get web access behind bars
News Prisoners in London are being allowed limited access to some websites as part of pilot project to help them resettle in the community. It allows prisoners to visit pre-approved websites to take part in... [14 Jan 2009]
Prisons still waiting for mobile phone jamming tech
News We had very high hopes last year that the Boss chair would be used to try and detect more phones being brought in by prisoners. New technologies have not stopped mobile phones being smuggled into one of the UK's biggest... [12 Nov 2008]
Lost data total nears 30 million records
News August 2008: PA Consulting loses a data stick holding records on 84,000 prisoners, a breach that subsequently sees the contractor lose its lucrative contract with the Home Office. In the last 12 months a series of data... [30 Sep 2008]
Prisoners' phone bills too high says watchdog
News Prisoners in England, Scotland and Wales have been paying too much for their phone calls while in jail, according to telecoms watchdog Ofcom. Following an investigation, Ofcom has ruled that prisoners in... [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 nonprofit... [18 Sep 2008]
Legal Eye: Who's to blame for data loss?
Comment In August PA Consulting, working as an external contractor on the Home Office JTrack system, was forced to admit to the loss of data files containing the personal details of tens of thousands of prisoners and other... [17 Sep 2008]
Data loss consultants sacked by Home Office
News The Home Office has dumped the firm that lost details of 84,000 prisoners last month and says it will push to recover its costs. The information lost included names, convictions, prisoner ID codes and details of drug... [10 Sep 2008]
Watchdog demands data breach confessions
News The issue of public data loss shot into the public eye late last year with the HMRC's loss of 25 million people's details on two CDs, which sparked a host of revelations about missing data in government and business - most recently a... [01 Sep 2008]
