Who We Are?
Our Mission
Mission
Providing the best Correctional Services for a safer South Africa
Vision
Contributing to a just, peaceful and safer South Africa through effective and humane incarceration of inmates, rehabilitation and social reintegration of offenders
Development
- Enablement and empowerment
- Faith in the potential of people
- Providing opportunities and facilities for growth
Integrity
- Honesty
- Disassociating yourself from all forms of corruption and unethical conduct
- Sound business practices
Ubuntu
- Serving with Kindness and humanity
Effectiveness
- Productivity
- The best work methods, procedure and system to achieve set goals
- Excellent services
Accountability
- Desire to perform well
- Accepting accountability for your behaviour
- Commitment
Justice
- Fair treatment
- Justice for all
- Fairness and equality before the law
Security
- Safety of employees, offenders, and the community
Equity
- Non-discrimination
- Affirmative Action
- Gender equality
- Integration of disability issues
GOAL 1
- Effective criminal justice through the effective management of remand processes
GOAL 2
- Society is protected through incarcerated offenders being secure and rehabilitated
GOAL 3
- Society is protected by offenders being reintegrated into the community as law abiding citizens
Strategic Objective
Administration
- Building organisational capacity for enhanced service delivery
- Effective management of business processes to promote good governance and ethical administration
- Provide a secured ICT infrastructure and business systems
- Professionalising for effective human resource management and development
- Incarceration
- Effective management of remand detention processes to promote conducive participation in court processes
- Remand detainees and offenders are held in secure, safe and humane conditions
- Effective case management process
Rehabilitation
- Effective incarceration and rehabilitation to protect society
- Offender behaviour is corrected through access to correctional programmes and psychological, social and spiritual services
- Offenders human development is improved through literacy, education and skills competency programmes
- Reduced re-offending to contribute to a safer South Africa
Care
- Inmates are provided with appropriate nutritional services
- Inmates are provided with appropriate access to health services
Social Reintegration
- Probationers and parolees are rehabilitated; monitored and accepted as law abiding citizens by the communities
- Offenders are provided with access to restorative justice processes
- Effective management and functioning of the Parole Boards