IPS Innovative Prison Systems (IPS) (having the legal form of QUALIFY JUST – IT Solutions and Consulting, LTD) is a boutique research and consulting firm specialised in the field of justice, correctional services, community sanctions and measures, juvenile justice and law enforcement. Our team has been growing its know-how and intervention since the early 2000’s. Company management team relies in more than one and a half decade of expertise in policy advisory, strategic consulting, training, e-learning consultancy and development of information technologies for probation and correctional systems. IPS senior experts have been working since 2002 on Prison Innovation Systems in different countries in Europe and Latin America; visited 44 prison systems in 38 countries worldwide, comprising more than 400 visits to prison and juvenile education and detention centres. IPS develops integrated projects, supporting change management in complex organisations, while developing and implementing programs targeting prison staff, top management and offenders. We develop our approach considering three main, complementary and non-exclusive pillars:

• Strategic management. Supporting the design and implementation of strategic
  performance management systems; implementing quality systems and developing a vision
  for rehabilitation of offenders through education, training and work; learning from other prison
  systems and projects implemented throughout the world; providing access to a wide network
  of international experts and supporting prison privatisation.
• People. Supporting offender rehabilitation, restorative justice, and reduction of recidivism –
  making it possible for ex-offenders to pursue a life without crime, bridging with community
  organisations through the development of rehabilitation programs; supporting the
  implementation of health programs in prisons.
• Processes & systems. Developing and implementing integrated management systems
  that support knowledge management and staff competence development in prisons; secure
  systems for inmate training and learning; healthcare solutions and telemedicine; inmate
  activity management systems; infrastructure management solutions, and technologies that
  improve the efficiency and effectiveness of prison systems.

IPS has in its portfolio the development, testing & embedding throughout different prison systems (PT, RO, ES & DE among others) & in EU networks (www.exocop.eu, IPS supported the conceptual design of strategic management (balance score card, Common Assessment Framework in 18 prisons), educational/ training, communities of practices & quality processes adapted to prisons services with solutions that integrate people, processes & covering more than 8000 prison professionals. In training, we include the implementation of learning management systems for the delivery of more than 10 trainings programs in e- and blended learning formats.

If you’d like to learn more about IPS you can click here: prisonsystems.eu