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La. Department of Corrections spends over $3M on failed tracking system
By klfy.com- Robbie Reynold
Published: 10/05/2016

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) – The Louisiana Department of Corrections (DOC) has spent $3.5 million on a computer system that shut down after one month, according to an audit released Monday by the Louisiana Legislative Auditor.

The system was used to track inmates and went online on June 15, 2015, but it was taken down 45 days later because it was not working and the DOC employees were encountering problems that they could not and/or did not know how to fix.

The system was supposed to track inmates as they moved through the DOC, showing when they entered the system, which prison they were currently housed in, and the date of their release.

The audit did not name the vendor who provided the system.

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