Mary-Louise Hoffman
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation worked with Hewlett Packard to implement a technology infrastructure designed to process, manage and share data on prison inmates, GCN reported Thursday.
Karen Schwartz writes HP acts as the system integrator under the $400 million project and has helped agency personnel build the state’s integrated Electronic Offender Management Information System.
The eOMIS infrastructure is designed to employ data processing and management tools from Cisco, EMC, Oracle, VMware, Adobe and Marquis Software, according to GCN.
“When inmates enters the prison system now, it’s all done online, like checking into a hotel,†said Russ Nichols, a CDCR project director, according to the report.
Schwarts reports the agency rolled out the system to 34 detention centers across California and estimates the technology is saving the state as much as $15 million a year.
