Whitehall's great crime mystery
Who knows who's in prison and where they are? Not Jack Straw. C-Nomis has turned into just another taxpayer-funded IT fiasco
"The latest admission of failure involves C-Nomis, the catchily-named computer system that is meant to provide real time access to the records of people in the penal system. Problems with the roll-out mean the Ministry of Justice has just announced that the recent publication of monthly prison population figures – which tell us how many prisoners we have and track characteristics in the custodial population like offence, sentence and age – will be delayed. The delay is indefinite. So right now, as of this minute, Jack Straw doesn't actually know who he has in his prisons".
Our criminal justice system is a shambles. So, what else is new?
A mixture of law, politics, autobiography and humour. Once described as "The Devilish Advocate" (Guardian), I do have the ability to provoke a response. Sometimes it comes from someone who uses a thought process, and sometimes from jerks usually associated with the knee.
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