prisons
RSS prisonsTechnology Investments Drive Transformation of Puerto Rico's Prison Health System
White Paper Off late healthcare services in Puerto Rico's prisons were so bad that a U.S. District Court called for creating a new, nonprofit entity to take them over. The result was the Corrcetional Health Services Corporation... [28 Aug 2009]
Whitehall IT to pack its bags for pastures new?
News Andrew Gay, acting CIO for the Ministry of Justice, said there is scope for more work to be carried out offshore in his department, giving the example of application development for a system such as the C-Nomis offender case management... [24 Jun 2009]
HP TRIM Software Has Major Impact on Record Management at Ministry of Justice
White Paper The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is responsible for the courts, prisons, probation, criminal law and sentencing in England and Wales. Due to changes in legislation the MoJ decided that it needed an Electronic Document and... [22 Jun 2009]
Ageing probation tech failing to keep tabs on prisoners
News Rather than natively interoperate with the National Offender Management Information System (C-Nomis) - the system that will allow prisons to share information on offender case management - Delius will instead use a... [11 Jun 2009]
Prisoner database hit by delays, budget blowout
News Prisons Minister, David Hanson, said in a statement: "I thank NAO for the report which is helpful. An IT project designed to give a single overview of the UK's prisoners has been beset by delays and overspending. [12 Mar 2009]
"I'm not an out and out technology person"
Comment Another major project underway at the Audit Commission is the Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA) project - a scheme which involves seven other inspectorates including Ofsted, HM Inspectorate of Prisons and the new Care... [09 Mar 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.01.09
Round-Up The Programme for Offender Learning and Resettlement Information Services is being trialled in eight London prisons and lets prisoners visit pre-approved websites to take part in online learning and job hunting. [16 Jan 2009]
Job-hunting prisoners get web access behind bars
News The Programme for Offender Learning and Resettlement Information Services (Polaris) is being trialled in eight London prisons. Prisoners in London are being allowed limited access to some websites as part of pilot... [14 Jan 2009]
Prisons still waiting for mobile phone jamming tech
News New technologies have not stopped mobile phones being smuggled into one of the UK's biggest prisons. We have been promised that trials are taking place but nothing is happening in the large local prisons... [12 Nov 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 number is 60p. If the same calls were made using the... [23 Sep 2008]
Prison tech: Mobiles blocked and bodies scanned
News Body scanning chairs and mobile phone blocking technology will be rolled out to UK prisons to stamp out drug abuse in jails. Mobile phone use will be blocked and Bodily Orifice Security Scanner (Boss) chairs will be... [08 Jul 2008]
Dear silicon.com: Prison IT, iPhone wi-fi, and the clock ticking on XP...
Comment IT in prisons First thing on readers' hit-lists this month was the government plan for prisoners to gain IT skills.then readers found a moment to engage in some iPhone debate before turning their attentions to the much... [19 Jun 2008]
Prisoners to gain IT skills
News But its newest vocational academy - launched yesterday by the minister for prisons, David Hanson, and the minister for skills, David Lammy - will offer training in data cabling and network installation for the IT... [11 Jun 2008]
Durham health consortium outsources e-procurement
News A consortium of health trusts and HM Prisons within County Durham has outsourced its shared procurement hub, which it uses to source around £350m of supplies and equipment a year. The service will be hosted by the... [22 May 2008]
Spiralling costs derail £500m offender-tracking system
News A version of the C-Nomis system - now known as Nomis (National Offender Management Information Systems) - will be deployed in 130 prisons across England and Wales but will no longer be used by the probation service,... [09 Jan 2008]
