AIM:

This project is aimed at developing a prison management system that is a collection of registers and reports for the effective management of prisons. This system should contain the modules like nominal roll, case register, parole register, Education, Training, Interview requests, In-out register and an automated release diary generator.

1. Nominal Roll: The details of the prisoner and his/her demographic details should be captured. A digital photo comprising different views of the prisoner and the list of articles surrendered by prisoner during nominal roll are to be recorded.

2. Case register: All the details of the cases against the prisoner should be captured. This must include the sentence details, remand/conviction details, etc.

3. Automated release diary generator: This report should be display the list of prisoners to be released on a day, the next day, the next week, the next month, or any given duration of time.

4. Parole register: This module should track all prisoners on parole and provide necessary reports on this data.

5. Education: This module consists of the information about the education to the prisoner based on his qualification and interest.

6. Training: This module consists of the information about the training provided to the prisoner in various works based on his interest.

7. Interview requests and In-out register: All interview requests by the relatives of the prisoners need to be recorded and tracked. An in-out register will track all prisoners and others who move in and out for various reasons.

8. Various status reports and demographical analysis reports are to be generated.

9. Staff: This module consists of the information about the staff like their name, designation, date of joining etc.,

EXISTING SYSTEM AND DRAWBACKS:

Automation of Prison helps the jailor in order to maintain the prison effectively and efficiently. It also keeps track of information regarding prisoners and the visitors.

The major drawbacks of existing system are:

Ø The Manual record entry is very slow and often tedious. Human errors are always possible in entering the data. It takes lot of time to verify where the data is entered incorrectly.

Ø Submission of illegal bills to the board. Fake information is sent to the board regarding reception of stock items.

Ø Difficulty in retrieval and access of data

Ø Lack of security, unauthorized access to data.

Ø Unnecessary investment towards inventory items.

Ø Does not integrate prison and visitor management systems.

Ø Existing systems are stand alone.

Ø Do not have automated release dairy generator.

The current system is rigid. Many options for storing and retrieving of records are not possible. There is no analysis, no report generation in existing system

FUTURE ENHANCEMENTS

Inmate tracking:

Modern prison designs, particularly those of high-security prisons, have sought to increasingly restrict and control the movement of prisoners throughout the facility while minimizing the corrections staffing needed to monitor and control the population.

Inmates will wear "wristwatch-sized" transmitters that can detect if prisoners have been trying to remove them and send an alert to prison computers.Staff will also wear the technology on their belts so they can be tracked for security purposes. Warders can activate an alarm themselves but the alert will also be sent if the transmitter is forcibly removed or the warder is knocked down.

This system can pinpoint the location of staff and prisoners in real-time and track them within the confines of a prison.

In an effort to monitor large groups and/or individuals in correctional facIlties, their surroundings, or in set open environments,jail will use the AMS-2000i wireless inmate tracking system.

The system enables real-time restricted zones administration and supports correctional facilities' operations by tightening supervision of inmates and enhancing the security of staff members.

The system allows for the flexible implementation of various types of in-house and off premises work or rehabilitation programs and can interface with other facility security and communication systems, including alarms, CCTV cameras, door-locks and more, as needed.

Included in the arrangement are tamper-proof, ankle or wrist worn RF (radio frequency) transmitters for inmates, officers and staff, officer and staff pagers, a network of wireless monitoring units, and a user software interface.

The information derived from the network of monitoring units allows facility management to receive imperative location information on inmates and staff, providing it with enhanced control over facility operations.

The system enables the user to configure the facility inner and outer grounds to include restricted areas and monitor them according to inmate's schedules. The new system will be configured to monitor a few hundred inmates, who will wear Elmo-Tech's transmitters, monitored by a wireless network of smart control units distributed throughout the facility.

Biometric in prisons:

Guards in Jail can tell which inmates should be released just by the look in their eyes. the jail can use a high-tech system that scans people's retinas to determine their identity.

Biometric technologies use body parts or behaviors, from voice prints to hand geometry, to identify individuals. In use for over a decade at top-security government institutions, biometrics are spilling rapidly into other markets, driven by falling prices and growing public acceptance.

Thousands of locations, from day care centers to health clubs to sperm banks, already monitor people's fingerprints, retinas, or other personal parts to make sure they are who they claim to be.

This swelling industry is finding a natural market in India's booming jails and prisons. The number of people behind bars has almost quadrupled since 1980, and continues to rise. All of those inmates, as well as the guards who watch them and the loved ones who visit them, have to be monitored to ensure that only the right ones go in -- and out.

Biometrics, more convenient to use and much harder to fool than systems based on identity cards or photos, seem tailor-made for a market that is based on controlling people's movements.

"Fingerprints started out strictly as a criminal thing, then they moved into welfare, and now they're used in banks and all kinds of places,". "Technology used for law enforcement purposes has a way of suddenly becoming used for all kinds of things."