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.  

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

DEPARTMENTAL PROGRAMMES IN SUPPORT

OF AIM OF DEPARTMENT

EXPENDITURE 0203 and 1st QUARTER REPORT

Expenditure

2002/2003

R’000

First Quarter Report 03/04

Budget

R‘000

Expenditure as at 31/7/03

R’000

Administration 2 355 325 2 455 015 752 160

Incarceration 3 431 875 3 554 420 1 183 783

Rehabilitation 352 218 398 644 118 059

CommCorr 259 345 260 902 88 513

Facility Management 1 232 932 1 547 168 364 009

Internal Charges -567 722 -539 128 -164 417

Special Function: Authorised Losses

4 502 - -

Total 7 068 475 7 677 021 2 342 107

% Spent

31

33

30

34

24

30

0

31

MTEF BASELINE ALLOCATIONS 2004/2005 - 2006/2007

Year 0

2003/2004

R’000

Year 0+1

2003/2005

R’000

Year 0+2

2005/2006

R’000

Year 0+3

2006/2007

R’000

Baseline Allocation 7 677 021 8 445 198 9 058 363 9 601 865

% Increase 10% 7% 6%

Baseline Allocations per revised programme structure

MTEF: 2004/2005 – 2006/2007

2004/05

R’000

2005/06

R’000

2006/07

R’000

1. Administration 2 656 019 2 840 125 3 152 577

2. Corrections 522 147 542 772 564 075

3. Security 2 682 984 2 901 550 3 048 862

4. Facilities 1 762 456 1 889 380 1 907 252

Apops

Capital Works

Facility Management

5. After Care 311 529 328 002 346 151

6. Development 387 844 408 075 429 138

7. Care 755 535 802 961 847 575

Internal Charges (621 291) (654 502) (693 765)

Total 8 445 198 9 058 363 9 601 865

532 371

1 054 163

175 922

579 864

1 122 950

186 566

602 866

1 107 510

196 876

PROJECT 2004/2005 2005/2006 2006/2007

NEW PRISONS390 350 834 739 224 491 709 677 841

PRISON UPGRADING255 673 197 13 359 627 133 399 148

RAMP: 33 & 146 PRISONS406 550 372 279 091 452 207 454 876

NEW HEAD OFFICE1 587 597 91 274 430 56 978 135

TOTALS1 054 162 000 1 122 950 000 1 107 510 000

CAPITAL WORKS BUDGET

2004/2005 2005/2006 2006/2007

LEEUWKOP 97 587 708 180 449 301 72 559 667

KLERKSDORP 97 587 708 180 449 301 72 559 667

NORTHERN CAPE 97 587 708 180 449 301 72 559 667

NIGEL 97 587 708 180 449 301 72 559 667

NEW PRISON 5 (KZN) - 3 677 735 3 750 168

NEW PRISON 6 (NC) - 6 677 735 3 750 168

NEW PRISON 7 (WC) - 3 535 909 205 969 418

NEW PRISON 8 (EC) - 3 535 909 205 969 418

TOTAL 390 350 834 739 224 491 709 677 841

NEW PRISONS

GEARING FOR REHABILITATION NEW PRISONS – PERSONNEL &

OPERATIONAL COSTS PROJECTED PRISONER

POPULATION PAROLE BOARDS

OPTIONS FOR ADDITIONAL FUNDING

SUMMARY OF OPTIONS

2004/05

R’000

2005/06

R’000

2006/07

R’000

Gearing for Rehabilitation

2 295 476 2 421 727 2 542 814

New Prisons - 266 978 180 479

Parole Boards 30 000 32 000 34 000

Offender Population

52 980 85 235 94 097

Total 2 378 456 2 805 940 2 851 390

2003/04

R’000

2004/05

R’000

2005/06

R’000

2006/07

R’000

Number of Current Financed Posts

35 700 35 700 52 079 52 836

Additional Financed Posts (New prisons)

- 1 198 757 -

New Additional Posts

- 15 181 - -

Total Personnel 35 700 52 079 52 836 52 836

Total Need - R 2 295 478 R 2 421 727 R 2 542 814

Total Backlog: 15 181 postsCurrent Actual Establishment: 33 494 posts

GEARING FOR REHABILITATION

PAROLE BOARDS

2004/05 2005/06 2006/07

Total Need R 30 million R 32 million R 34 million

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

PAROLE BOARDS

Prisoner Population 2004/05 2005/06 2006/07

Projected 204 700 216 100 227 300

Financed 187 000 192 000 202 000

Non Financed 11 748 18 148 19 348

Financial Implication

R 50 m R 82 m R 91m

Probationer/ Parolee Population

2004/05 2005/06 2006/07

Projected 80 100 84 600 89 000

Financed 72 000 75 000 82 000

Non Financed 8 100 9 600 7 000

Financial Implication

R 2.9 m R 3.6 m R 2.8 m

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.

PROJECTED PRISONER POPULATION

2004/05 2005/06 2006/07

Total Offender Population: Non Financed

R 52.9 million R 85.6 million R 93.8 million

2004/05 2005/06 2006/07

Operational Costs - 53,978 56,677

Start Up Costs - 95 795 -

Personnel costs - 51 411 53 982

Overtime - 65 794 69 820

Total - 266 978 180 479

NEW PRISONS – PERSONNEL & OPERATIONAL COSTS

4 new Type-3000 prisons.

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

IDENTIFIED SAVINGS / REPRIORITISATION

The Department’s reprioritisation is mainly towards:

Funding of shortfalls on operational costs of prisons

- direct incarceration costs Enhancement of rehabilitation

Reprioritization further resulted in personnel funds been allocated to programmes six and seven to allow the Department to fill vacant posts on their establishment.

DONOR FUNDINGThe Department utilised two sources of donor funding in 02/03, i.e.:

The Rollins School of Public Health of the Emory University – research on a Post-Apartheid study of Prison Health in South Africa – R 80 000 Foundation for Human Rights – To monitor and ensure that prisoners are afforded the basic right to lodge complains with prison authorities as required by the Correctional Service Act and the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners – R 161 000 The department has applied for donor funding to finance Research projects.