Government of Jamaica
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Correctional Services Department

The core functions of the DCS are:

The management of offenders within both non-custodial and custodial programmes with a view to ensuring their rehabilitation and reintegration into society upon release. This Department is comprised of seven (7) Adult Correctional Centres, one (1) Adult Remand Centre, four (4) Juvenile Centres, and seventeen (17) Community Service Offices (Probation Offices) who are all under the directorship of the Department’s Chief Executive Officer, the Commissioner of Corrections.