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RSS prisonsPrisons 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]
Prisons to tackle Windows XP upgrade
News In total, over 200 prisons and head offices with around 48,000 users will be covered by the project, which is expected to be completed by autumn 2006. It also notes that "significant practical implications for individual... [26 Apr 2005]
Leader: RFID in prisons - does anyone care?
Leader US prisons have started using RFID chips to keep track of prisoners, protect staff and increase security. There are surely benefits to using RFID in prisons, such as protecting guards from violence and... [02 Aug 2004]
More prisons to take visitors' biometrics
News The number of UK prisons biometrically scanning the fingerprints and faces of people visiting inmates is to increase. In a written statement to parliament on Monday, Fiona Mactaggart, an under-secretary for the Home... [29 Mar 2006]
Prison Service ponders UK-wide intranet
News HM Prison Service has begun an informal investigation into the use of intranets in UK prisons. Hillmer's Telis scheme links local prisons to the University of Bremner over a secure connection, allowing... [02 Mar 2000]
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]
Jailbirds to get internet kiosks?
News The government is pondering the widespread deployment of internet kiosks throughout the UK's prisons. Mactaggart's letter was in response to Liberal Democrat MP Lynne Featherstone's question about what the government is... [23 Nov 2005]
Prisoners get touch-screen rehab
News HM Prison Service and the Legal Services Commission (LSC) are rolling out 14 computer terminals, dubbed Prisoner Information Points (PIPs), in east Midlands prisons. BT installed the kiosks and has also implemented a... [27 Oct 2005]
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]
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]
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]
Meet the politicians in charge of government IT
Comment Before the election he was minister for prisons and probation at the Home Office. In May 2003 he was appointed minister for prisons and probation. Here we introduce you to the ministers with most... [13 May 2005]
Corrections Corporation of America Reduces Processing Errors by 95% and Accelerates Inmate Booking With Real-Time Integration Process
White Paper Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) specializes in the design, building, and management of prisons and detention facilities. The company wanted to create a flexible and efficient process for booking and processing... [05 Sep 2007]
Technology 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]
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]
