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Prison Administration

The Administration Department is mandated to ensure prisoner’s welfare is maintained as well as improved by the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service.

Admin

Community Service

Inmates Welfare

Rehabilitation

Mandate

The section deals with the management of prisons and the welfare of prisoners focusing on the provision of adequate and balanced food, appropriate clothing and bedding as well as suitable accommodation.

Focus

The major focus of the department is to handle all matters dealing with the inmates from their admission to prison up to their discharge including records maintenance, health care, up keep, public interaction, court attendance and general welfare of all the prisoners in the country’s institutions.

Correctional Services

The Correctional Services Department is mandated to provide rehabilitation and reintegration activities to inmates in addition to generating revenue for ZPCS activities.

Correctional Services

Projects and Production

Farming Activities

Workshops

Rehabilitation

Mandate

Intervention which aims to bring about change in some aspect of the offender that is thought to cause the offender’s criminality, such as attitudes, social environment, personality or mental health.

Rehabilitation

Focus

Focuses on life changing skills intended to make the offender less likely to break the law in future.

Human Resources

Proper staffing and management of the human resources in the Service who are our most prized asset to achieving our goals and mandate as enshrined in the Constitution of Zimbabwe and the Prison Act.

Human Resources

 Mounted Unit

Dog Sections

ZPCSP

Mandate

Proper staffing and management of the human resources in the Service who are our most prized asset to achieving our goals and mandate as enshrined in the Constitution of Zimbabwe and the Prison Act.

Focus

Our recruitment initiatives focus on meeting our key operational needs by filling in vacancies that arise within the Service for such groups as Correctional Officers and other technical fields.

Audit and Inspectorate

The Audit & Inspectorate Department is mandated to ensure proper accounting and book keeping transactions and that procedures are carried out properly.

Audit & Inspectorate

Audit

Inspectorate

Mandate

Mandated to ensure that there is accountability and control of all resources in the department.

Focus

Is focused on bringing sanity in the day to day operations of the department and to ensure that assets under the control of the organisation are properly accounted for.