Managing the Criminal-Justice System in Iowa Was Something of a Guessing

Managing the criminal-justice system in Iowa was something of a guessing game.For example, when the legislature considered changing the status of a misdemeanor, it was virtually impossible to predict how the change would affect the number of beds needed in county jails.Nor could the state estimate accurately how much it would spend on defense lawyers from year to year.The problem was not a lack of useful data; the data existed, hut they were scattered in court computers around the state-one or more in each county.The system had been built to handle transactions: this person was charged with that crime, he received a sentence this length, and served that many years of it. The situation described in the paragraph above would be best corrected by

A) an expert system.
B) a decision support system.
C) information leveraging.
D) cellular phones.
E) data warehousing.