Audit Report

Select Application Controls Review of the Federal Bureau of Prisons's Sentry Database System

Report No. 03-25
July 2003
Office of the Inspector General

Tables

Inmate Population Monitoring Tracks inmate movement in every BOP facility or while an inmate is in transit, regardless of location or time of day.	State Billing - Tracks and reports amounts billable to individual states for inmates serving state sentences in BOP facilities.
	Financial Responsibility - Records, manages, and monitors court-ordered financial obligations imposed on an inmate.
	Inmate Discipline - Tracks every report of an infraction of institution rules filed against an inmate.
	Administrative Remedy - Automatically produces and routes inmate data needed to complete an internal investigation.
	Central Inmate Monitoring - Identifies inmates within SENTRY who require special handling.
	Designations - Assigns inmates to specific facilities.
	Sentence Monitoring - Calculates and tracks all aspects of an inmate's sentence.

SENTRY Network Configuration

Justice Data Center
Dallas, TX
Sentry is house on a mainframe computer at the JDC-D in Dallas, TX.

Data Flow
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Sprint Federal Telecommunications System (FTS)
The Sprint FTS and local exchange carriers provide the communication links to SENTRY.

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The BOP's NCC
Washington, D.C.
SENTRY applications are accessed by end-users, Department and BOP facilities through the BOP's NCC.

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Sprint Federal Telecommunications System (FTS)

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SENTRY users