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| Across California prisons, inmates now tracked online |
| By gcn.com- Karen D. Schwartz |
| Published: 10/03/2014 |
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With a prison population spread across 35 separate facilities, it’s difficult under the best of circumstances to keep track of inmates’ whereabouts, not to mention their appointments, special circumstances and sentence changes. For decades, California prisons managed this tracking manually, adding to paper files that were started the day inmates began their sentences. Over time, an inmate’s documents and files could grow to fill several boxes, depending on the sentence. There were some automated systems, but they were decades old and provided very limited functionality. In even the best-managed of the Department’s systems, data was often 24 hours out of date, which affected the accuracy of department’s reporting and access. In 2009, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation made the decision to completely overhaul the process, first by digitizing all existing paper files and then by setting up a fully automated transaction processing system. Read More. |
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