Council for Medical Schemes Levies Act, 2000
R 385
Correctional Services Act, 1998 (Act No. 111 of 1998)Chapter IV : Sentenced Offenders42. Case Management Committee |
| 1) | At each correctional centre there must be one or more Case Management Committees composed of correctional officials as prescribed by regulation. |
| 2) | The Case Management Committee must- |
| a) | ensure that each sentenced offender has been assessed, and that for sentenced offenders serving more than 24 months there is a plan specified in section 38(1A); |
| b) | interview, at regular intervals, each sentenced offender sentenced to more than 24 months, review the plan for such offenders and the progress made and, if necessary, amend such plan; |
| c) | make preliminary arrangements, in consultation with the Head of Community Corrections for possible placement of a sentenced offender under community corrections; |
| d) | submit a report, together with the relevant documents, to the Correctional Supervision and Parole Board regarding- |
| i) | the offence or offences for which the sentenced offender is serving a term of incarceration together with the judgment on the merits and any remarks made by the court in question at the time of the imposition of sentence if made available to the Department; |
| ii) | the previous criminal record of such offender; |
| iii) | the conduct, disciplinary record, adaptation, training, aptitude, industry, physical and mental state of such offender; |
| iv) | the likelihood of a relapse into crime, the risk posed to the community and the manner in which this risk can be reduced; |
| v) | the assessment results and the progress with regard to the correctional sentence plan contemplated in section 38; |
| vi) | the possible placement of an offender under correctional supervision in terms of a sentence provided for in section 276(1)(i) or 287(4)(a) of the Criminal Procedure Act, or in terms of the conversion of such an offender’s sentence into correctional supervision under section 276A(3)(e)(ii), or 287(4)(b) of the said Act, and the conditions for such placement; |
| vii) | the possible placement of such sentenced offender on day parole, parole or medical parole, and the conditions for such placement; |
| viii) | a certified copy of the offender’s identity document and, in the case of a foreign national, a report from the Department of Home Affairs on the residential status of such offender; |
| ix) | the possible placement under correctional supervision or release of an offender who has been declared a dangerous criminal, in terms of section 286B(4)(b) of the Criminal Procedure Act; and |
| x) | such other matters as the Correctional Supervision and Parole Board may request. |
| e) | submit a report as contemplated in paragraph (d) to the National Commissioner in respect of any sentenced offender sentenced to incarceration of 24 months or less. |
| 3) | A sentenced offender must be informed of the contents of the report submitted by the Case Management Committee to the Correctional Supervision and Parole Board or the National Commissioner and be afforded the opportunity to submit written representations to the Correctional Supervision and Parole Board or National Commissioner, as the case may be. |
