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.
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.
How microservices made up of small applications can be more effective than big behemoth IT systems.
Arif Harbott, our Chief Digital & Information Officer, talks about transforming the justice system at the Sprint 16 government digital conference.
How we’re making it easier to share data across the criminal justice system.
The prison visits booking team had a problem: we were getting excessive amounts of feedback to our technical helpdesk that we couldn’t address.
Last Friday was a momentous day for MOJ Digital. Not only did our make a plea service hit the headlines but we also learned that the employment tribunal service had passed its service standard assessment.
We asked Peter Hickey, Head of Operations at HMP/YOI Rochester to give us the low-down on what it was like to be one of the first prisons in England and Wales to use the new online prison visits …
Yesterday, we visited HMP Rochester to get first-hand responses to our prison visits booking pilot. This digital service is now being tested in Rochester, Durham, Cardiff and Gartree Prisons. It’s designed to make it easier for families and friends to …
UI developer Mat Harden explains how we developed a date selector for mobile devices for the prison visit booking service.
Tony Duarte talks about the MOJ Digital prison visits booking project reaching over 1000 booking requests.