MONITORING FOR CORRECTIONAL CENTRES

A. VISIT DETAILS

1. Correctional Centre Name:*

Other Correctional Centre Name

Please type the proper name of the correctional centre

2. Correctional Centre address:*

Street Address Address Line 2 City State / Province / Region

3. What is the classification of the centre?*

4. Date of Visit:*

5. Time of Visit:*

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6. Name and position of interviewer:*

First Position

7. Was the visit announced or unannounced?*

8. Did you experience any challenges in gaining access to the centre?*

Yes
No

9. If yes, please elaborate on your observations?

B. OFFICIALS

10. Who is the Head of Centre or Acting Head of Centre at the time of the visit? Please also include their contact details.*

11. Which officials from the centre accompanied you on the visit? Please also include contact details?*

12. What is the total number of officials working at the correctional centre, including officials who are off duty, on sick leave or annual leave?*

Please enter a number from 0 to 1000.

13. What is the post establishment requirement for the correctional centre?*

14. What is the official to offender ratio at the correctional centre at the time of the visit?*

15. How many officials are former SANDF employees?*

Please enter a number from 0 to 1000.

C. SAFETY AND SECURITY

16. Does the correctional centre have body scanners?*

Yes
No

17. A) If yes, how many?

Please enter a number from 0 to 50.

17. B) Where are they located?

18. If yes, are the body scanners working?

Yes
No

19. If the body scanners are not working, please elaborate on the explanations given by officials.

20. Does the centre have close circuit television cameras (CCTV)?*

Yes
No

21. If no, please elaborate on your observations?

22. If yes, are the close circuit television cameras (CCTV) working?

Yes
No

23. If no, have they been reported?

Yes
No

24. Does the centre have dogs?*

Yes
No

25. A) If yes, how many?

Please enter a number from 0 to 50.

25. B) If yes, what are they used for?

26. How often do raids occur to check the cells for prohibited substances and contraband?*

27. When was the last raid conducted?*

28. What are some of the prohibited items which are found in the centre’s cells during raids?*

29. How, when and by whom are women inmates searched?*

D. DETAINEES OR INMATES

30. What is the total lock up count of the correctional centre at the time of the visit?*

Please enter a number from 0 to 50000.

31. What is the approved bed space at the correctional centre?*

Please enter a number from 0 to 50000.

32. Is the centre overcrowded?*

Yes
No

33. What is the centres overcrowding percentage?

Please enter a number from 0 to 300.

Please input percentage with no % sign

34. How many sentenced offenders are at the correctional centre at the time of the visit?*

Please enter a number from 0 to 50000.

35. How many sentenced male offenders are at the correctional centre at the time of the visit?*

Please enter a number from 0 to 50000.

36. How many sentenced female offenders are at the correctional centre at the time of the visit?*

Please enter a number from 0 to 50000.

37. A) How many sentenced male juvenile offenders are at the correctional centre at the time of the visit?*

Please enter a number from 0 to 50000.

37. B) How many sentenced female juvenile offenders are at the correctional centre at the time of the visit?*

Please enter a number from 0 to 50000.

38. Are there any offenders serving life sentences at the centre?*

Yes
No

39. A) If yes, how many are male offenders are serving life sentences at the centre?

39. B) If yes, how many are female offenders are serving life sentences at the centre?

40. How many unsentenced/remand detainees are at the correctional centre at the time of the visit?*

Please enter a number from 0 to 50000.

41. How many unsentenced/remand male offenders are at the correctional centre at the time of the visit?*

Please enter a number from 0 to 50000.

42. How many unsentenced/remand female offenders are at the correctional centre at the time of the visit?*

Please enter a number from 0 to 50000.

43. How many unsentenced/remand female juvenile offenders are at the correctional centre at the time of the visit?*

Please enter a number from 0 to 50000.

44. How many unsentenced/remand male juvenile offenders are at the correctional centre at the time of the visit?*

Please enter a number from 0 to 50000.

45. How many offenders are mental health care users?*

Please enter a number from 0 to 20000.

46. Are there any declared state patients at the centre?*

Yes
No

47. If yes, how many?

Please enter a number from 0 to 5000.

48. Are offenders who are mental care health users/state patients housed separately from other inmates?*

Yes
No

49. If no, please elaborate on your observations?

50. Were there any offenders with disabilities at the centre at the time of the visit?*

Yes
No

51. If yes, how many?

Please enter a number from 0 to 5000.

52. What are the categories of disabilities?

53. What measures are in place to reasonably accommodate offenders with disabilities e.g. handrails in bathrooms?

54. Are offenders with disabilities housed separately from other offenders?

Yes
No

55. Are there any offenders who are part of the LBTIQA+ community, if known?*

Yes
No

56. If yes, how many offenders are part of the LGBTIQA+ community?

Please enter a number from 0 to 10000.

57. Are they incarcerated in a separate unit/cell at the centre?

Yes
No

58. If no, please elaborate on your observation?

59. If yes, are they incarcerated in a separate unit/cell out of their own request or for their safety?

Own Request
For Their Safety

60. Are there any offenders above the age of 60 at the centre?*

Yes
No

61. A) If yes, how many offenders are above the age of 60 are male?

Please enter a number from 0 to 5000.

61. B) If yes, how many offenders are above the age of 60 are female?

Please enter a number from 0 to 5000.

62. Are they housed in a separate unit/cell at the centre?

Yes
No

63. If no, please elaborate on your observation?

64. Were there any offenders who are foreign nationals at the centre at the time of the visit?*

Yes
No

65. If yes, how many are detained for contravention of the Immigration Act only?

Please enter a number from 0 to 50000.

E. FEMALE OFFENDERS

66. Are sanitary towels provided to female offenders?*

Yes
No

67. Were there any women with babies at the centre at the time of the visit?*

Yes
No

68. If yes, are the women with babies housed in a separate facility at the centre?

Yes
No

69. If no, please elaborate on your observations.

70. If yes, how many babies are at the centre?

Please enter a number from 0 to 5000.

71. If yes, are women who are breast feeding provided with an alternative diet to other offenders.

Yes
No

72. If yes, what meals are they provided with?

73. Are special diets and amended meal times provides to pregnant women?*

74. Are special diets and amended meal times provided to babies?*

75. What support is provided to babies and/or mothers with babies at the centre?

(This question focuses on whether the centre conducts {pre and post-natal etc} new-born examinations, provision of diapers etc for new-borns and other babies, breastfeeding coaching and addressing medical questions about new-borns.)

76. Were there any pregnant women at the centre at the time of the visit?*

Yes
No

77. If yes, are pregnant women housed in a separate facility at the centre for their own protection?

Yes
No

78. Please elaborate on your observations.

79. Are women who have children outside of the correctional centre able to contact their child(ren) and their guardians?*

80. Are offenders at the centre provided with information on preventive health-care measures of particular relevance to women, such as screening for breast and gynaecological cancer?*

Yes
No

81. Please elaborate on your observations.

(Please provide an explanation on how this information is provided to offenders at the centre)

82. Are offenders at the centre provided with preventive health-care measures of particular relevance to women, such as screening for breast and gynaecological cancer?*

Yes
No

83. If yes, please elaborate on your observations.

(Please indicate which preventative measures are provided and how often)

F. ACCESS TO LEGAL REPRESENTATION AND OTHER VISITS

84. Do the offenders at the centre have access to their legal representatives?*

Yes
No

85. Is legal aid’s information and/or contact details presented in the correctional centre?*

Yes
No

86. Are oversight bodies such as JICS, SAHRC and NPM’s details presented in the correctional centre?*

Yes
No

87. Are offenders provided with an opportunity to receive in-person visits from family and/or friends?*

Yes
No

88. If yes, please elaborate on your observations.

89. Are offenders able to contact their family member(s) via telephone or post?*

Yes
No

90. If yes, how are the family members can be contacted and how often?

G. CELLS CONDITIONS

91. Are the cells over-crowded?*

Yes
No

92. How many offenders are in the cell as opposed to the capacity of the cell?

93. Is there sufficient lighting and ventilation in the cell(s)?*

Yes
No

94. Please elaborate on your above observations.

95. Are the toilets and bathing facilities clean and sanitary?*

Yes
No

96. Please elaborate on your above observations.

97. Is there adequate and clean bedding?*

Yes
No

98. Please elaborate on your above observations.

99. Do the offenders have access to reading material and/or television?*

Yes
No

100. Please elaborate on your above observations.

101. Are there any offenders who are currently segregated in single cells from the rest of the offender population?*

Yes
No

102. How many offenders are segregated from the offender population?

Please enter a number from 0 to 5000.

103. What are the reasons for and the duration of the segregation?

104. Does the centre have a reporting/complaints mechanism which can be used by offenders?*

Yes
No

105. What reporting mechanism is in place for complaints, including, but not limited to, complaints relating to ill-treatment, food and medical care*

106. What are the policies used to guide the reporting and resolution mechanisms for complaints received from offenders?*

107. Do officials at the centre comply with these policies?*

Yes
No

108. Please elaborate on your observations.*

H. NUTRITION, FOOD HANDLING AND PREPARATION

109. Does the centre have a kitchen?*

Yes
No

110. If no, where does the centre obtain food for the offender population?

111. Is all the equipment in the kitchen working?

Yes
No

112. If the answer is no, please elaborate on your observations.

113. Does the kitchen have cold and dry storage?

Yes
No

114. Please elaborate on your observations.

115. Are offenders provided with an adequate diet according to a prescribed menu?*

Yes
No

116. Please elaborate on your observations.

117. A) At what times are offenders served breakfast?*

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117. B) At what times are offenders served lunch?*

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117. C) At what times are offenders served dinner?*

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118. Are religious and therapeutic diets provided for?*

Yes
No

119. Please elaborate on your observations.

120. Was the kitchen clean at the time of the oversight visit?

Yes
No

121. If no, please elaborate on your observations.

122. Did the kitchen have a Certificate of Acceptability at the time of the visit?

Yes
No

123. If no, please elaborate on your observations.

124. Did the kitchen have UV light fly traps at the time of the visit?

Yes
No

125. Please elaborate on your observations.

126. At the time of the visit, did the official(s) in the kitchen state that they had reported the identified defaults in the kitchen?

Yes
No

127. Please elaborate on your observations.

I. PROVISION OF HEALTH CARE SERVICES

128. Does the centre have a hospital/clinic/sick bay?*

Yes
No

129. Please elaborate on your observations.*

130. Are the facilities clean, hygienic, and well maintained?

Yes
No

131. Please elaborate on your observations.

132. Does the clinic/hospital/sick bay have all the equipment required to cater for the medical wellbeing of the offender population?

Yes
No

133. Please elaborate on you observations.

134. How many nurses are working at the correctional centre clinic/hospital/sick bay at the time of the visit?

(This includes officials that are off duty, sick or on leave.)

Please enter a number from 0 to 1000.

135. What are the post establishment requirements at the clinic/hospital/sick bay at the time of the visit?

136. What are the top five ailments of offenders in the correctional centre*

137. How is expired medication disposed of and when is it disposed of?*

138. Is there enough dispensable medication available to cater for the medical wellbeing of the offender population at any given time?*

Yes
No

139. If no, please elaborate on your observations?

140. What protocol is applied when an offender requires urgent medical assistance in instances where the clinic is unable to provide it?*

141. Have the nurses treated any MDR and XDR tuberculosis patients at the centre in the past year?*

Yes
No

142. If no, when last did nurses treat an MDR and XDR tuberculosis patients at the centre?

143. How many offenders have died at the centre in the past 2 years?*

Please enter a number from 0 to 50000.

144. What was the cause of death?

145. Are male offenders at the centre provided with information on preventive health-care measures of particular relevance to men, such as screening for prostate and testicular cancer?*

Yes
No

146. Please elaborate on your observations.

(Please provide an explanation on how this information is provided to offenders at the centre)

147. Are male offenders at the centre provided with preventive health-care measures of particular relevance to men, such as screening for prostate and testicular cancer?*

Yes
No

148. If yes, please elaborate on your observations.

(Please indicate which preventative measures are provided and how often)

J. EXTRA-MURAL ACTIVITIES & EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES

149. How often do offenders have access to open air exercise?*

150. For how long do offenders have access to open air exercise?*

Please enter a number from 0 to 10000.

Answer in minutes

151. Do offenders have access to a gym?*

Yes
No

152. Do offenders have access to other recreational activities such as baking and carpentry?*

Yes
No

153. If yes, what are those recreational activities?

154. Are offenders at the centre provided with opportunities to partake in educational programmes?*

Yes
No

155. Please elaborate on your observations.

K. STRUCTURAL OBSERVATIONS

156. Is the correctional centre wheelchair accessible (including other facilities such as toilets)?*

(This is for both officials and offenders)

Yes
No

157. Please elaborate on your observations.

158. Is the correctional centre undergoing any construction at the time of the visit?*

Yes
No

159. Please elaborate on your observations?

L. OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY

160. Is the servicing of the centre’s fire-fighting equipment such as extinguishers and hydrants up to date?*

Yes
No

161. If no, when last were they serviced?

162. Does the centre conduct regular fire drills?*

Yes
No

163. Please elaborate on your observations?

164. What pest-control measures are implemented at the centre?*

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M. STAFF WELLNESS

165. Are officials at the centre provided with preventive screening for communicable diseases?*

Yes
No

167. If yes, how often does this occur?

168. Are officials at the centre provided with debriefing on a regular basis?*

Yes
No

169. If yes, who conducts the debriefing?

170. How often are officials provided with new uniform?*

171. Does the centre experiencing any challenges with obtaining uniform for officials?*

Yes
No

172. If yes, please provide a summary of the challenges which the centre faces.

173. When was the last time that officials at the centre were provided with new uniforms?*

174. Does the centre provide officials with accommodation?*

Yes
No

175. If yes, please provide details on the accommodation provided for officials and what category is used to determine which officials qualify for accommodation.

176. What other challenges are faced by officials at the centre?*

N. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS

177. Please detail any further comments and/or observations of actions that you think may be in violation of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, the Prevention of Combating and Torture of Persons Act and the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment:*

O. RATE THIS CENTRE

178. Centre Rating*

MONITORING FOR CORRECTIONAL CENTRES

A. VISIT DETAILS

B. OFFICIALS

C. SAFETY AND SECURITY

D. DETAINEES OR INMATES

E. FEMALE OFFENDERS

F. ACCESS TO LEGAL REPRESENTATION AND OTHER VISITS

G. CELLS CONDITIONS

H. NUTRITION, FOOD HANDLING AND PREPARATION

I. PROVISION OF HEALTH CARE SERVICES

J. EXTRA-MURAL ACTIVITIES & EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES

K. STRUCTURAL OBSERVATIONS

L. OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY

M. STAFF WELLNESS

N. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS

O. RATE THIS CENTRE

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