Department of Correctional Services, Jamaica (DCS)

Correctional Officers and Civilian Staff

staff members Receive Certification

with HEART/NSTA Trust.

Correctional Officers and civilian staff members assigned to the
Tamarind Farm Adult Correctional Centre are presented with
certificates following the completion of their training with the
HEART/NSTA Trust.

Twenty-eight Officers and three civilian staff members are now
i certified in various areas including Poultry Management, Crop
i Management, Public Health Attendance and Livestock Rearing.

Inmates from the institution were also certified in the skill areas
as part of their ongoing rehabilitation.
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DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONAL SERVICES

VISION AND MISSION

Our Vision:
To be the Caribbean Centre of excellence in correctional
management.

Our Mission:
We contribute to national security by securing, supervising,
rehabilitating and reintegrating offenders as productive
and law-abiding citizens.
DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONAL SERVICES

REHABILITATION AND REDEMPTION

A part of the criminal justice system, the Department of
Correctional Services (DCS) contributes to public safety
through safe custody and rehabilitation of offenders in
its care and under supervision.
Do you know about

the

DRIVE

PROGRAMME

?

The Direct Results of Inmates' Value and Empowerment (DRIVE) programme, launched February 14, 2017, is an initiative which seeks, through inmates, to positively affect the communities in which the institutions are situated.

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SIGNING OF MoU

The University of the Commonwealth Caribbean will provide six scholarships for inmates and Correctional Officers to pursue the Associate Degree in Business Administration valued at more than two million dollars annually, to the Department of Correctional Services for a period of two years.

This follows the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of National Security through the Department of Correctional Services, The University of the Commonwealth Caribbean and ‘Stand Up Jamaica’ on Wednesday, February 23, 2022.

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INMATES GRADUATE FROM

S.O.A.S PROGRAMME

Seven inmates of the Tamarind Farm Adult Correctional Centre graduated from the Step Out and Strive S.O.A.S Programme at the institution on Wednesday, February 23, 2022. S.O.A.S is a cognitive behavioural programme that provides offenders with opportunities to examine the concepts of:

Beliefs, values and attitudes
Anger management
Empowerment

The goal of the programme is to assist the inmates in the practice of self-control enabling them to function as holistic individuals in the institution and later in the wider society.

Department Of Correctional Services Gets 11 New Vehicles

March 22, 2023Press Release

Eleven new motor vehicles have been added to the fleet of the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) as part of measures to bolster the operational capacity of the entity. The…

DCS Wellness Committee Health Fairs

March 10, 2023Education, Health

Enid Bennett High School’s Annual Career Exposition 202

March 10, 2023Education, Outreach

Highlights from The Enid Bennett High School’s Annual Career Exposition 2023. Staff Officer Bevin Davey, Acting Staff Officer Cleopatra Howard-Burton and Probation Aftercare Officers Abigail Walters and Patricia Johnson Reid…

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January 22, 2021

Music in rehabilitation

Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre has one of the most vibrant music programs, allowing inmates with special talents to freely express themselves while improving their appreciation of various genre of…

January 22, 2021

Parole conditional release

Parole is a conditional release which allows a person to serve the latter part of his/her term of imprisonment in the community, under the supervision of a Probation Aftercare Officer….

January 22, 2021

Self-sufficiency Programme

As part of the self-sufficiency programme, inmates contribute to their diet through egg production and growing of vegetables.

January 22, 2021

Home Economic Programme

21 Wards in the care of the Department of Correctional Services have benefited from a 3 month Home Economic Programme at the South Camp Juvenile Remand and Correctional Centre.

A year has passed since we began preparation for the arrival of the Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV or COVID-19) to national shores. To date we remain in combat mode to secure our facilities, staff and inmates against the burgeoning new strains of the virus – some proclaimed to be unresponsive to vaccinations already available in foreign markets.