As part of our commitment to rehabilitation of offenders, the ...

Strategy Output
Strategy D.1.5:
Development and
implementation
of a needs-based
rehabilitation
approach
for special
categories of
offenders as
defined in the
White Paper
62 DCS Annual Report 2007/08
The needs of
special categories
are met
Output
Performance
Measures/
Services delivery
Indicators
Aligned /reviewed
care and
development
programmes and
services
Challenges/reasons for not achieving targets:
•
•
•
Actual Performance
Target Actual
Aligned /reviewed
care and
development
programmes and
services
•
in Peer Education in HIV and
AIDS.
Services are available to special
categories of offenders.
High turnover of professionals and scarce skills (psychologists, nurses, pharmacists, pharmacist assistants, medical
practitioners, psychiatrists, dieticians and environmental health practitioners).
The target for sentenced offenders participating in psychological services could not be reached due to the resignation
of 12 psychologists in 2007/08
Lack of adequate capacity in some of the provinces in the Department of Health to provide assistance and support
to Correctional Services e.g. the admission of multi-drug resistant (MDR) and extremely drug resistant (X-DR) tuberculosis,
psychiatric and dental offender patients, as well as some aspects of secondary and tertiary levels of care.