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"As &lt;a href=\"http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,,2144640,00.html\"&gt;reported&lt;/a&gt; in the&lt;a href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/\"&gt; London Guardian Unlimited&lt;/a&gt;, the UK Custody-National Offender Management Service Information System (C-NOMIS) that was intended to keep close track of the 330,000 prisoners and those serving their probation, is in deep trouble. The cost of the development, originally estimated at \u00E2'\u00BF240 million has jumped to an estimated \u00E2'\u00BF950 million. \n\nAn \"urgent review\" is now being ordered to see in anything can be salvaged from the effort, which has been halted. About \u00E2'\u00BF155 million has been spent so far, and cancellation the program would cost \u00E2'\u00BF5o million in cancellation fees.\n\nA government official said without irony &amp;hellip;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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