SELECT APPLICATION CONTROLS

SELECT APPLICATION CONTROLS REVIEW OF THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS'S SENTRY DATABASE SYSTEM U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General Audit Division Audit Report 03-25 July 2003 EFTA00122329 SELECT APPLICATION CONTROLS REVIEW OF THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS'S SENTRY DATABASE SYSTEM EXECUTIVE SUMMARY SENTRY is the Federal Bureau of Prisons's (BOP) primary mission support database. The system collects, maintains, and tracks critical inmate information, including inmate location, medical history, behavior history, and release data. SENTRY processes over 1 million transactions each day and tracks more than 165,000 inmates. Roughly 85 percent of these inmates are housed within the BOP facilities, with the remaining inmates confined in other government facilities (state or local) or privately operated facilities through contracts with the BOP. As of March 2003, over 24,000 personal computers at approximately 200 facilities could access SENTRY. The pur