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Correctional Services Amendment, Act 2015

Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional ServicesRef: http://www.jics.gov.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/CSA-as-amended-2015.pdf

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What this means

This document is the South African Correctional Services Act (Act No. 111 of 1998) as updated, including amendments up to the Government Gazette dated 5 January 2015 (Gazette 38377). It sets out the correctional system, including the Department of Correctional Services, custody of offenders, rights and obligations of sentenced and unsentenced offenders, community corrections, release and supervision mechanisms, and oversight bodies such as the National Council for Correctional Services and the Judicial Inspectorate. The text also includes general notes on how certain terms were substituted by the Correctional Services Amendment Act No. 25 of 2008, and it provides a detailed table of contents and beginning of the definitions chapter.

Facts

Reference

http://www.jics.gov.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/CSA-as-amended-2015.pdf

Key Takeaways

  • Act: Correctional Services Act No. 111 of 1998
  • Assented to: 19 November 1998
  • Commencement date: 31 July 2004
  • Updated to: Government Gazette 38377 dated 5 January 2015
  • Amendments referenced: Act No. 32 of 2001, Act No. 40 of 2002, Act No. 55 of 2002, Act No. 25 of 2008, Act No. 75 of 2008, Act No. 5 of 2011
  • General note: s. 86(a) of Act No. 25 of 2008 substitutes terms like 'Area Manager'/'Commissioner'/'Head of Prison' with 'National Commissioner'/'Head of the Correctional Centre' etc.
  • General note: s. 86(b) of Act No. 25 of 2008 substitutes 'prisoner/prisoners' with 'inmate/inmates' in specified sections and with 'sentenced offender/sentenced offenders' in other specified sections
  • Subject matter includes: custody under human dignity, discipline, security, sentenced offenders, remand detainees, community corrections, release/parole boards, judicial inspectorate, independent correctional centre visitors, compliance management, public-private partnership correctional centres, offences and regulations
  • Department of Correctional Services
  • National Commissioner
  • Head of the Correctional Centre
  • Regional Commissioner
  • Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services
  • Inspecting Judge
  • Independent Correctional Centre Visitors
  • National Council for Correctional Services
  • Correctional Supervision and Parole Boards
  • Correctional Supervision and Parole Review Board
  • South African Police Service
  • President (signing the English text)