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LONDON — In another embarrassing stumble with computerized data, Britain’s government confirmed Thursday that a contractor lost a memory device containing information on every prison inmate in England and Wales.
The Home Office, which is responsible for managing Britain’s prisons, said a contractor lost the device, known as a memory stick, containing the names and dates of birth of 84,000 inmates. The stick also carried the home addresses of 33,000 criminals who committed six or more recordable convictions over the past 12 months, along with information on 10,000 “prolific and priority offenders,” a spokeswoman said.
