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California Prison Computer Project Crashes
Loaded on March 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
March, 1997, page 20
With over 144,000 prisoners, tens of thousands of employees, some thirty prisons and a multi-billion dollar budget, the California Department of Corrections just rejected design plans for a mammoth computer project to automate its antiquated record keeping system. CDC officials suspended a $2 million payment to TRW Inc., the prime ...
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