JAIL A PLACE OF NEW BEGGINGS!

Many offenders enter correctional centres because of a mistake they made, others are purely guilty of the crimes they committed. Offenders are human beings who have done their share of mistakes as any other human being, not anticipating that their mistakes will follow them for the rest of their lives.

In the olden days in South Africa when someone was sent to jail, the purpose was to punish them and lock them up and throw away the key. The system worked because it did not seek to rehabilitate or reform prisoners, it was only put in place to punish those who have broke the law. Many people who went to jail in those days always became jail birds and could not stop or keep away from breaking the law.

In South Africa today we are still seeing the same thing happening to offenders going in and out of prison or correctional centres with the rehabilitation system in place. This system was implemented to rehabilitate and make offenders also ex-offenders worthy members of  the society. This system of rehabilitating and reforming ex-offenders has failed dismally as offenders still do their old habits of raping, assaulting, recruiting newbies in to their numbers gangs.

The senior officials who are working to make sure that the offenders are being rehabilitated are the same people who the warders who never cared for a prisoner's well-being. The implementation of the "Rehabilitation system" has made no difference in South African Correctional centres but has made them worse than before.

Still officials are bringing in illegal weapons and drugs to the centres, also the numbers gangs still rule the centres like it use to be in the olden days.