Mary-Louise Hoffman
Hewlett Packard has landed a $116.5 million contract extension to help the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation manage the agency’s electronic prisoners data system for five additional years.
HP’s enterprise services business will continue to provide hosting, disaster recovery and backup services for the state’s Strategic Offender Management System, the company said Tuesday.
The company built the infrastructure to consolidate all CDCR-operated corrections databases and recordkeeping applications, as well as to digitize more than 200 million files of prison inmates throughout the state.
“Uninterrupted, real-time access to offender information is critical for corrections agencies to enable policy outcomes, improve operational effectiveness and create administrative efficiencies,†said Brian Kitzmiller, vice president of state and local government at HP Enterprise Services.
Russ Nichols, CDCR’s SOMS project director, said the department intends for the web-based platform to address operational efficiency and cost issues.
SOMS is also designed to help the agency standardize population management practices at California jails and coordinate inmate personal data and case management plans.
