MTEF PRESENTATION FOR

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DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONAL SERVICES
MTEF PRESENTATION FOR
MEDIUM TERM EXPENDITURE COMMITTEE 2004-2007
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AIM OF D.C.S
The aim of the Department of Correctional
Services is to contribute towards maintaining and
protecting a just, peaceful and safe society, by
enforcing court-imposed sentences, detaining
prisoners in safe custody and promoting the
social responsibility and human development of
all prisoners and persons subject to community
corrections.
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KEY DEPARTMENTAL MEDIUM TERM OBJECTIVES

• Green Paper on Correctional Services
• Transformation and Restructuring
• Construction of 4 New Generation Prisons
• Human Resource Development
• Framework against Corruption
• Compliance with existing policies
• Policy Development
• Framework against Overcrowding
• Orientation of Persons under Correction
• Preparation of Correctional Centres for
  Rehabilitation
• Information Communication Technology
• External Relations
• Improvements in Financial Management
• Communication
• International Relations
• Research

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DEPARTMENTAL PROGRAMMES IN SUPPORT OF AIM OF
DEPARTMENT

• ADMINISTRATION
• Refers to all administrative support functions
  
• providing an enabling environment for all
  services
• rendered by the department to ensure
  compliance with
• the law and management best practices. The
  services
• range from human resource development and
• management, procurement, budgeting,
  financial
• management, well being of personnel,
  communication,
• information communication technology,
  research and
• policy coordination, investigation capacity,
  legal
• services and code enforcement,
  intergovernmental
• relations, information management, executive
  decision
• support, strategic support, good governance,
  etc.  

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DEPARTMENTAL PROGRAMMES IN SUPPORT OF AIM OF
DEPARTMENT

• CORRECTIONS
• Refers to all those services aimed at the
  assessment of security risk and the criminal
  profile of individuals based on their social
  background, and developing correctional sentence
  plan targeting all elements associated with the
  offending behaviours. The initial focus will be
  to target the actual offence for which a person
  will have been convicted and sentenced to
  community correctional supervision, and/or
  remanded in a correctional centre and/or placed
  on parole.
• Measurable Objective
• To assess prisoners and to provide them with
  needs-based correctional programmes in order to
  address the offending behaviour with the purpose
  to ensure that they are law-abiding citizens
  after release into the community.

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DEPARTMENTAL PROGRAMMES IN SUPPORT OF AIM OF
DEPARTMENT

• SECURITY
• Refers to all those services rendered by the
  Department aimed at ensuring the provision of
  safe and healthy conditions for all persons under
  its care in conditions consistent with human
  dignity, while providing protection for its
  personnel, security for the public against
  persons under its care.
• Measurable objective
• To provide safe and protection services under
  healthy conditions to all persons in custody, to
  ensure the protection of the personnel of the
  Department and the safety of the public, in order
  to prevent escapes and criminal activities.

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DEPARTMENTAL PROGRAMMES IN SUPPORT OF AIM OF
DEPARTMENT

• FACILITIES
• Refers to all physical infrastructures provided
  by the Department for those legally entrusted to
  its care as well as to personnel, aimed at
  ensuring availability of minimum facilities
  requirement pursuant to rehabilitation
  responsibilities and objectives.
• Measurable objective
• The provision of physical infrastructure, repair
  and maintenance services to the Department by
  making use of prisoner labour and private
  contractors in order to support the Department
  with the delivering of its core functions
  according to international standards for prison
  facilities and the stipulations of contracts
  between the Department and private contractors.

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DEPARTMENTAL PROGRAMMES IN SUPPORT OF AIM OF
DEPARTMENT

• AFTER CARE
• Refers to all services focused on persons under
  the care of the DCS in preparation for the
  completion of sentences, to facilitate social
  acceptance and effective reintegration into their
  communities.
• Measurable objective
• Refers to all services needed to facilitate the
  social acceptance and effective reintegration of
  the correctional clients into the community by
  ensuring that they adhere to applicable
  correctional and parole supervision conditions
  and to keep the absconding rate down in order to
  contribute to combating recidivism.

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DEPARTMENTAL PROGRAMMES IN SUPPORT OF AIM OF
DEPARTMENT

• DEVELOPMENT
• Refers to all those services aimed at development
  of competency through provision of social
  development and consciousness, vocational and
  technical training, recreation, sports, and
  opportunities for education that will enable
  sentenced prisoners to easily reintegrate in
  communities and serve as productive citizens.
• Measurable Objective
• To provide educational, skills and development
  programmes to sentenced prisoners in order to
  rehabilitate them before completion of their
  sentences and their release into the community.

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DEPARTMENTAL PROGRAMMES IN SUPPORT OF AIM OF
DEPARTMENT

• CARE
• Refers to needs-based services aimed at
  maintenance of the well being of persons under
  departmental care providing for physical
  well-being, nutrition, social link with families
  and society, spiritual and moral well-being,
  psychological well-being and health care.
• Measurable Objective
• To provide health, mental, nutritional and
  personal care services to prisoners, in order to
  ensure their personal well-being according to
  international accepted standards.

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EXPENDITURE 0203 and 1st QUARTER REPORT
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MTEF BASELINE ALLOCATIONS 2004/2005 - 2006/2007
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Baseline Allocations per revised programme
structure MTEF 2004/2005 2006/2007

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CAPITAL WORKS BUDGET
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NEW PRISONS
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D.C.S COST DRIVERS MTEF 2004/2005
2006/2007
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COST DRIVER TOTAL PERSONNEL ESTABLISHMENT NEED
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COST DRIVER FINANCED OFFENDER POPULATION
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COST DRIVER PRISON ACCOMMODATION (BEDS)
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OPTIONS FOR ADDITIONAL FUNDING

• GEARING FOR REHABILITATION
• NEW PRISONS PERSONNEL OPERATIONAL COSTS
• PROJECTED PRISONER POPULATION
• PAROLE BOARDS

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SUMMARY OF OPTIONS
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GEARING FOR REHABILITATION

• Total Backlog
  15 181 posts
• Current Actual Establishment
  33 494 posts

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PAROLE BOARDS
PAROLE BOARDS
Implementation within the ambit of current
approved 52 boards which will consist of 52
Chairpersons (DD level) and 104 members from the
community.
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PROJECTED PRISONER POPULATION

• The cost of the option was based on
• the direct and indirect incarceration costs,
• rehabilitation costs and
• the variance between the financed offender
  population vs the projected
• offender population.

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NEW PRISONS PERSONNEL OPERATIONAL COSTS

• Date of occupation by the Department is
  01/10/2005

• 4 new Type-3000 prisons.

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IDENTIFIED SAVINGS / REPRIORITISATION
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DONOR FUNDING