20 lines
2 KiB
Markdown
20 lines
2 KiB
Markdown
---
|
|
category: "PROMIS Scandal"
|
|
created: 2024-04-25
|
|
updated: 2026-05-01
|
|
tags:
|
|
- Person
|
|
- PROMIS
|
|
- INSLAW
|
|
summary: "Dean C. Merrill co-founded the Institute for Law and Social Research (ILSR) with Bill Hamilton on October 15, 1973, and served as a Vice President of INSLAW, Inc. through at least April 1982, having also been a member of the original 1969 team that designed the PROMIS software under the direction of Joan E. Jacoby and Charles R. Work."
|
|
---
|
|
Dean C. Merrill was a member of the original 1969 team assembled by U.S. Attorney [[Thomas A. Flannery]] to design a computer-based case management system for the [[U.S. Attorney's office|DC U.S. Attorney's Office]]. The team was co-directed by [[Joan E. Jacoby]] and [[Charles R. Work]], with [[Bill Hamilton]] serving as project manager at [[Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co]]. The resulting system, deployed January 1, 1971, became the [[PROMIS|Prosecutor's Management Information System (PROMIS)]].[^2]
|
|
|
|
On October 15, 1973, Merrill co-incorporated the Institute for Law and Social Research (ILSR) with Hamilton at 1125 15th Street, N.W., Suite 6000, Washington, D.C. ILSR was a nonprofit corporation established to serve as the steward of the PROMIS software and to conduct empirical criminal justice research under [[LEAA]] funding.[^2]
|
|
|
|
When INSLAW, Inc. was incorporated in Delaware in January 1981 as the for-profit successor to ILSR, Merrill continued with the new entity as a Vice President. He held that position through at least April 1982, during the period when the company negotiated and executed its March 1982 implementation contract with the [[Department of Justice|DOJ's]] [[Executive Office for United States Attorneys]].[^2]
|
|
|
|
### Footnotes
|
|
|
|
[^1]: Cannavale, Frank J. *Witness Cooperation: With a Handbook of Witness Management.* Lexington Books, 1976.
|
|
[^2]: U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary. *The INSLAW Affair: Investigative Report.* House Report 102-857, 102nd Congress, 2nd Session, September 10, 1992.
|