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How we're saving money and supporting prisoners
At Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS), we’re building straightforward, effective digital services to support reform, save money and increase safety in UK prisons.
Our services
Non-transactional services: measuring the unmeasurable
The service I’ve been working on for the past few months is a bit different to most government services: it doesn’t involve any transactions.
Guest post: Prison register goes into alpha
Since November, Richard Carling from the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) has been working with the Government Digital Service’s registers team to create a prison register.
Why we code in the open
At the Ministry of Justice, we code in the open, by default. This means whenever we write software, we make our source code available to anyone and everyone.
Technical series: guidance for evaluating a new technology
In my first blogpost I explained why technological diversity is a good thing. However, it is important to evaluate new technologies to make experiments less risky.
Technical series: Why technological diversity is a good thing
This is the first in a series of technical blogposts we would like your feedback on. Let us know what you think and what you’d like to hear more about.
Data principles - the right ingredients to solve the data spaghetti problem
Data sharing has long been a contested subject, and rightly so. It’s important that the rules balance privacy and public good.
44con Security Conference
We're really excited to be sponsoring this years 44con security conference as well as running an extremely challenging 'capture the flag' event.