Having good case management software could easily avoid all of these types of problems that might come about from rival gang members and from other issues where a person would not be 'safe' in a prison cell with another individual for a specific reason. The same is often true with a police officer that has broken the law and is now incarcerated, or a child molester being put in with prisoners that have children and value those children even though they may have done something awful to another adult. Computer literacy is very important, so say both educators and the general public (Eisenberg, 1996). However, police departments and correctional facilities have only begun to realize the significance that computers can have for the rehabilitation and transfer of prisoners. According to Borglund (n.d.), records are an extremely important part of police work, and the change from standard record-keeping to electronic record keeping has caused some problems. It is believed that records can be used for specific things, and there...

This could be very detrimental to the population of the prison itself because of fights and riots that have the possibility of getting started when individuals are place in cells with others that they have no chance of getting along with based on gang affiliation, type of crime committed, or some other factor that might not even be considered, known, or thought of without the aid of the case management software.
Bibliography

Borglund, E. (n.d.). Operational use of electronic records in police work. Department of Information Technology and Media. Mid-Sweden University, Harnosand, Sweden.

Eisenberg, M. & Johnson, D. (1996). Computer Skills for Information Problem-Solving: Learning and Teaching Technology in Context. ERIC Digest. ERIC Clearinghouse on Information and Technology, Syracuse NY.