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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.
Prisons
Ants v elephants: microservices and monolithic systems
How microservices made up of small applications can be more effective than big behemoth IT systems.
How we're transforming justice: Digital Justice speech at Sprint 16
Arif Harbott, our Chief Digital & Information Officer, talks about transforming the justice system at the Sprint 16 government digital conference.
Opening up data in the criminal justice system
How we’re making it easier to share data across the criminal justice system.
Reducing frustration in booking prison visits with A/B testing
The prison visits booking team had a problem: we were getting excessive amounts of feedback to our technical helpdesk that we couldn’t address.
MOJ delivers its fab four exemplars
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.
Handling prison visit requests: the inside story
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 …
Going digital in Rochester Prison
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 …
Creating a date selector for prison visits booking
UI developer Mat Harden explains how we developed a date selector for mobile devices for the prison visit booking service.
A milestone for prison visits bookings
Tony Duarte talks about the MOJ Digital prison visits booking project reaching over 1000 booking requests.