NCJ Number
79802
Date Published
1981
Length
5 pages
Annotation
Accomplishments of the Corrections Management Information System (CMIS) project in its fifth year are presented.
Abstract
Over the past 5 years, SEARCH Group, with the continuing support of the National Criminal Justice Information and Statistics Service and the Bureau of Justice Statistics, has been assisting State departments of corrections in designing and implementing the Offender-Based State Corrections Information System (OBSCIS), which is intended to provide corrections administrators with complete information for decisions affecting offenders and departmental resources. In the fourth year of the project, a model was developed to provide the foundation for expansion of a State's existing computer capabilities to include resource management functions such as personnel management, budget control, prison industries, food management, inventory control, transportation, and maintenance. The model is called State Corrections Resource Management Systems (SCRMS). In its fifth year, the project consolidated members of the OBSCIS Users Group and the SCRMS Advisory Committee to create a national forum of corrections information specialists, the CMIS National Users Group. Enhancements to the basic OBSCIS software were developed and made available to States wishing to implement them for existing inmate management systems. In helping States plan for CMIS implementation, solve system problems, and increase communication, SEARCH provided technical assistance to States implementing components of the OBSCIS and SCRMS models and to those States which are adopting the basic OBSCIS software package. CMIS literature was often requested by States to support information system developments. At this stage, States have access to conceptual models, applications designs, data dictionaries, implementation plans, and some software packages for developing a complete corrections information system.