ABSTRACT
Prisoners’ management in
Nigeria has long been a neglected area and has only recently been included in
the 20-20 vision document under the e-governance. Currently, prisoner’s records
are maintained in a very rudimentary way in the form of manual files and
registers. This method of data management often results in human error, delay
to retrieve information etc. Thus, An Online Prison Management System was
designed and implemented to manage prisoner’s records for the Nigerian prison
service Enugu command. This project was done using basic html for visible web
contents, php for server scripting and MySQL database was used to store and
manage the prisoner’s records. Tools used to achieve this Project includes
Dreamweaver CS5 html editor,CSS3 for styling, JavaScript, php wamp5 server and
MySQL. The project was implemented successfully and the result obtained
provides a single management system which integrates all the information about
a prisoner in a single profile and can easily be accessed which improved the
overall efficiency of prison management.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Certification………………………………………………………………………………….I
Dedication………………………………………………………………………………………Ii
Acknowledgement……………………………………………………………………….Iii
Abstract………………………………………………………………………………………….Iv
Table of content…………………………………………………………………………..v List of
Figures………………………………………………………………………………..VI List of
Tables………………………………………………………………………………….VII
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY……………………………..1
1.2
STATEMENT OF PROBLEM………………………………….2
1.3
OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY………………………………………3
1.4
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY…………………………….3
1.5
SCOPE OF THE STUDY……………………………………………4
1.6
LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY……………………………………4
1.7
PROJECT REPORT ORGANIZATION ………………………5
1.8
DEFINITION OF
TERMS………………………………………….5
CHAPTER TWO
LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1
DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM………………………6
2.2
MANAGEMENT
INFORMATION SYSTEM (MIS)…………11
2.3
REVIEW OF
PRISON MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ……………….16
CHAPTER
THREE
SYSTEM
ANALYSIS
3.1
GENERAL
ANALYSIS OF THE EXISTING SYSTEM…………26
3.2
METHOD OF
DATA COLLECTION……………………………….26
3.3
LIMITATIONS OF EXISTING
SYSTEM…………………………27
3.4
PROPOSED SYSTEM……………………………………….. 27
3.5
ADVANTAGES OF PROPOSED SYSTEM……………….27
3.6
INPUT ANALYSIS…………………………………………………..28
CHAPTER FOUR
SYSTEM DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION
4.1
OBJECTIVE OF DESIGN…………………………………………29
4.2
INPUT
SPECIFICATION AND DESIGN……………………..30
4.3
OUTPUT SPECIFICATION AND
DESIGN……………………31
4.4
MAIN MENU DESIGN……………………………………………32
4.5
DATABASE FILE DESIGN ……………………………33
4.6
PROGRAM
MODULES SPECIFICATION……………………34
4.7
SYSTEM
FLOWCHARTS…………………………………35
4.8
PROGRAM
FLOWCHART………………………………………36
4.9
CHOICE OF
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE ………………37
4.10
SYSTEM
REQUIREMENT…………………………………37
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
5.1
SUMMARY………………………………………………………..43
5.2
CONCLUSION………………………………………………. ………44
5.3
RECOMMENDATIONS………………………………………….45
REFERENCES…………………………………………………………………….47
APPENDIX A (SOURCE
CODE)……………………………………………………48
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1
BACKGROUND
OF THE STUDY
Management of prisons in
Nigeria has long been a neglected area which has recently been incorporated in
the e-governance program of Government of Nigeria. Currently a rudimentary
process of storing all the prisoner data in manual files and registers is in
place. The Prison Management System project will integrate all the prisoner
data into a single integrated system which will in turn result all the
information being present in a digital format.
ICT in prisons was
initiated in the year 2002 at Delhi Prisons, Tihar. The Tihar Prisons Complex
in New Delhi is the biggest prison complex in Asia comprising of 9 prisons and
one District Jail at Rohini with a total strength of more than 11,000 prisoners
against a normal sanctioned capacity of 6250 prisoners. In a year about 70,000
- 80,000 inmates remain lodged in these prisons for different duration and
crimes committed by them. This prison population has about 80% under trials and
includes about 480 women inmates. About 400 inmates are foreigners from
different parts of the world. Many high security criminals also live here.
There has been a substantial increase in number of prison inmates coming to
Tihar because of a phenomenal increase in the crime scene at Delhi that has
resulted in the increase of the ICT needs and its management at the Tihar Jail
Complex.
Nearly 1700-1800 visitors
meet their relative inmates’ everyday. There was manual system of booking
(meetings) in each jail for its respective inmates. Centralised visitor record
was not available. There was lack of exchange of visitors’ information within
jails and
prison headquarters. No provision for identification / detection / verification
of visitors was there.
Managing the prisoner
record and monitoring of prisoner / visitor was always difficult since most of
the records were normally maintained manually, so the concerned authorities
were required to go through all the registers to find out the details and
status of the inmate as well as of the visitor.
In order to cope up with
the increasing number of prisoners being lodged in, the Tihar Administration
required a re-engineering and rationalization of their key business processes
and functions of prisoners’ related information and their computerization in
order to speed up the processing of information need of courts and various
other national agencies.
As the technology
evolution is taking place, there arose a need for centralization of prisoner’s
data to facilitate information exchange and data sharing to the users of the
prison. It shall reduce administrative overheads, speed up responsiveness to
users, reduce risks involved in inmate’s custody, eliminated obsolete processes
and reap cost-cutting benefits.
1.2
STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
Management of prison’s in
Nigeria is still at a nascent stage and follows rudimentary processes. Most of
the prisons in Nigeria have a collection of manual files and registers to store
prisoner/criminal records. This is a very inefficient and cumbersome way of
storing records which greatly impedes the flow of critical information as well
as makes looking up of information time consuming. Also, different files and
registers are required
to store the information which is relevant to a single prisoner. This hinders
the profiling process of prisoners.
1.3 OBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECT
The main purpose behind
the implementation of the Prison Management System (PMS) was to enhance the
administrative capabilities of the jails in terms of monitoring and security of
the prison while improving the efficiency and productivity of the Prisons. The
main goals of the project are enunciated below:
·
To ensure
proper monitoring of the prisons by the top officials
·
To ensure
that the discipline and decorum of the jails is maintained by both the
employees and the prisoners
·
To ensure
that no impersonation of the prisoners happens by proper validation and
authentication of the prisoner’s identity
·
To improve
the productivity and efficiency of the prisons so as to facilitate the usage of
the available work force for sensitive work while leveraging technology to
reduce the mundane workload of the employees
·
To ensure the
availability of data in digital form for preservation, analysis and reporting.
1.4
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE
PROJECT
The
nature of project is such that outcome of project could be quantitatively
measured only for few parameters such as
· Automatic
detection of duplication
·
Immediate
generation of report on categorization of prisoners on basis of their cases,
period of confinement etc.
·
Automatic
calculation of Remission to be granted to a convict prisoner for good behavior,
discipline etc.
·
Reduction in
the cost (Saving of resources) of physical production of prisoners in Courts.
1.5 SCOPE OF THE PROJECT
The basic purpose of this
project is to develop an online system for prison management. The system
developed covers prisoner’s information such as picture, conviction, offence,
visitors, address, jail term record etc.
1.6 LIMITATIONS OF THE PROJECT
Generally, a study of
this nature would have some constraints such as time, money and data collection
method. I wish to say that data collection method used has the limitation of
rigidity (people finding it difficult to respond to questions) thereby
restricting the information obtained.
Also
lack of finance is another obstacle that hindered a wider consultations and
research on the project. Some materials may have some cost implications which
may be above the budgeted money for the research work.
1.7 PROJECT
REPORT ORGANIZATION
The
project is organized as follows;-
Chapter one introduces
the background of the project with the statement of the problems, objectives of
the project, its significance, scope, and constraints are pointed out. Previous
literature on prison management information system were reviewed in Chapter
two. Chapter three discusses system Investigation and Analysis. It deals with
detailed investigation and analysis of the existing system and problem
identification. It also proposed for the new system. Chapter four covers the system design and implementation.
Chapter five was the summary and conclusion of
the project.
1.8
DEFINITION
OF TERMS
Data- This can be
defined as facts about the organization and its business transaction.
Information- This can be defined as data that has been transformed and organized by processing and purposeful intelligence.
Information system- This is an arrangement of people, data, processes and interface that interact to support and improve day to
day operation in a business as well as support the problem solving and decision
making needs for management and users.
Management: It is the co-ordination of all the resources
of an organization through the
process of planning, organization, directing and controlling in order to attain organizational objectives.
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