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  • 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.
    LEARN MORE
  • 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 ReleaseMonique Pryce

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…

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DCS Wellness Committee Health Fairs

March 10, 2023Education, HealthRomane Samuda
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Enid Bennett High School’s Annual Career Exposition 202

March 10, 2023Education, OutreachRomane Samuda

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
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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
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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
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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
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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.

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Correctional Officers and Civilian Staff staff members Receive Certification with HEART/NSTA Trust.

Correctional Officers and Civilian Staff staff members Receive Certification with HEART/NSTA Trust.

National Awards

National Awards

Awards Dinner 2019

Awards Dinner 2019

Correctional Week 2019 Church Service

Correctional Week 2019 Church Service

DCS Exposition and Awareness 2019

DCS Exposition and Awareness 2019

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Correctional Services in Jamaica is a department under the Ministry of National Security. Other major arms of the Ministry are the Police Force and the Jamaica Defence Force. The Judicial System falls under the Ministry of Justice. The Commissioner of Corrections is the chief executive officer who administers the Correctional programmes on behalf of the Government of Jamaica and reports to the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of National Security.

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