Outsourcing to the Insourced

An Australian data management company has hired 200 inmates in a jail there to process data. iTNews reported that the prisoners "will handle banking information 24 hours a day using a shift system." They'll be paid (U.S.) $2.20 a day.

The program was started to teach prisoners a skill that they could then use to find a job once they served their sentences. The prison, in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, was chosen because a large portion of the inmate population has a higher than average education level.

iTNews did not report what data beyond the "banking information" the inmates would be processing, but I bet most managers here would like to see the risk management plan for this project.