Mission and Operation Philosophy The Prisons Service is guided by its mission and by the four limbs of its Operation Philosophy:
To protect society by ensuring the secure custody of offenders in a humane environment, and to facilitate their return to society as law-abiding citizens by providing rehabilitative opportunities.
- Prisons and Drug Rehabilitation Centres are not holiday resorts ... conditions shall be spartan but not an affront to human dignity.
- Prisoners are here with us as punishment but not for punishment.
- Drug inmates are here with us, not as punishment but for treatment and rehabilitation.
- Every inmate will be given opportunities to change, but more effort will be accorded to thosegenuinely desirous of changing.
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