1

Keep detainees in custody.

2

Maintain order, control, discipline and safe environment.

3

Provide decent conditions for detainees and meet their  needs, including medical care, advice on and help with personal problems.

4

Provide positive regimes which help detainees to address their offending behaviour and prepare them to live a full and responsible life.

5

Help towards rehabilitation of detainees.  Provide a delivery of prison services using resources provided by Parliament with maximum efficiency.

6

In meeting these goals, we co-operate closely with other criminal justice agencies and contribute to the effectiveness and development of the criminal justice system as a whole.

1

To monitor all statutory to intramural sentences.

2

To provide a safe and healthy environment for the detainees which is conducive to their rehabilitation and spiritual enhancement and vocational training.

3

To facilitate and safeguard ways and means for the detainees' contact with outside world, i.e. spouse, children, parents and next of kin.

4

To provide the necessary structures that will be beneficial for all detainees   in terms of education and vocational training.

5

To apprise and sensitize the detainees on the ill effects of substance abuse   and to empower them so that they may lead a drug-free life.

6

To provide the detainees with all the required structures for their mental and physical development through sports and games.

7

To continuously upgrade and rethink the existing physical structures of the prison so that they may be congruent with a healthy and peaceful environment.