Prison lament
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) SAN DIEGQ (California), ~. , Aug- 6. Life is even worse than usual at the San Diego County Gaol, because of a new computer which has taken over some of the tasks normally handled by the staff, including booking and release notifications. The immediate results were overcrowding—as many as 75 people were jammed into a 12ft by 20ft holding cell during the week-end—-and long waits for release. Some people arrested on simple drunk and disorderly charges found themselves held twice as long as in the past. “When the computer stops, I don’t care what anybody tells you, you just can’t make it start again,” the prison governor, Mr Clifford Powell, lamented. “But, on the basis of what we’ve seen in computer programmes elsewhere, ours isn’t as bad as some. In Los Angeles, they lost every single prisoner in the whole gaol—lost them, that is, on computer files.”
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32679, 7 August 1971, Page 25
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150Prison lament Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32679, 7 August 1971, Page 25
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