Offender management solution administers aspects of both facility-based and community-supervised corrections

AUGUSTA, MAINE - xwave, an Aliant Company (TSX: AIT), announced today it has been awarded a contract to deliver its Corrections Information System (CORIS) to the State of New Hampshire Department of Corrections.  The value of the contract is US $1.4 million, and follows similar recent awards for state-wide offender management systems for Virginia and Maine.

"To ensure both the public safety of our citizens and the effective management and treatment of offenders, we need to monitor and control custody, correctional treatment, and rehabilitation of offenders across the entire correctional system, from incarceration through to probation and parole," said New Hampshire Department of Corrections Commissioner Stephen J. Curry.  "xwave's CORIS offender management system allows us to achieve this level of integrated real-time information, and thus gain a more detailed profile of every offender as well as a broader view of the environment as a whole.  The implementation of CORIS at the New Hampshire Department of Corrections represents a significant modernization of the information management underpinnings of our operations."

CORIS is an integrated, web-based offender management system (OMS) that supports information needs for incarcerated offenders as well as offenders under community supervision.  The solution connects relevant stakeholders through a single electronic offender record and centralized database, thereby providing a complete and holistic view of the offender's status, history, and risk profile. In this way, offenders can be better tracked and more effectively managed as they move through the corrections system.  Corrections practitioners have complete, accurate, real-time information to enable better treatment and security decision making. 

"Corrections professionals today are faced with growing offender populations and, conversely, tightening operational budgets," said B.J. Carter, Regional Director, xwave. "A solution such as CORIS helps address these conflicting challenges by helping users work more efficiently. Through full workflow automation, and integration and consistency of information, they're able to streamline their workloads, maintain higher standards and, ultimately, better treat offenders-thereby improving public safety and the safety of their own working environments."

Under this contract, CORIS will be delivered incrementally by xwave, the project prime and technology provider. The implementation will take place over an approximate timeframe of 14 months. The first phase, scheduled for delivery by Fall 2005, will support New Hampshire Field Services Division, the community corrections users.  A follow-up release will provide the Prison Services automation.

Based on award-winning technology already in use in Maine, Virginia and in Canada, CORIS is a fully-scalable system that meets the needs of all sizes of offender population. It has been designed for users, by users-xwave has actively solicited client involvement in the solution's refinement and customization. For this reason, CORIS is known as a user-friendly system: screens are easy to read; they don't require extensive clicking and scrolling to view all pertinent data; and they can be easily configured to meet individual user preferences.

xwave will showcase its CORIS solutions at this summer's Southern States Correctional Association conference July 17th to the 20th in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida as well as the American Correctional Association (ACA) conference in Baltimore, Maryland from August 6th to 11th, 2005.

About xwave
xwave, an Aliant Company, is a full-service business-solutions provider that serves clients through three service lines: systems integration and software engineering, infrastructure services and product fulfillment. These areas offer clients a broad delivery capability to plan, design, build and operate ICT solutions that span both corporate and operational systems, and to provide their infrastructure needs. xwave has more than US $280 million in revenues and employs 1,900 people with offices throughout New England. More information can be found at www.xwave.com. 

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