Report: ICT Workshop (Stockholm, 2018)

This year the ICT Workshop took place on 22-24 May in Stockholm, Sweden and was kindly hosted by the Swedish Prison and Probation Service. Download the full report on notes taken from  workshop during the plenary and breakout sessions, discussions, live demonstrations, etc.

The report contains the following:

Day 1

• EuroPris expert group on ICT in Prisons
• Plenary 1- Developing digital strategies: Becoming a Smart Prison
• Matrix 2.18
• Breakout sessions, Block 1
• Videoconferencing for family visits
• Translation Services for Prisons and Courts
• Inter-Agency Collaboration: Police-Court-Prisons-Probation: How to manage information flow, common data & data exchange
• ICT & Education for Prisoners
• Breakout sessions, Block 2
• Payments in Prison, Case Study by ICT Expert group
• Cabling, Wireless Connectivity, Internet, Mail, Separate Networks, RFID, CCTV
• How can ICT make the offender better prepared for release?
• Plenary 2 – The evolution and standardisation of Prison Statistics – Improvements on data quality in ICT & OMS
• Live demonstrations

Day 2

• Plenary 3 – Implementation of the GDPR – Challenges and Experiences
• Breakout sessions, Block 3
• Development of ICT Strategies for Prison Services
• How to tackle local IT solutions and other threats?
• Latest developments in the area of E-Justice within the EU, E-Codex, Data exchange across Europe
• Conclusions & Closing
• Optional afternoon program
• The Swedish journey towards a digital detention center
• Visit to the Kronoberg Remand Prison