CSPRI Newsletter, No. 25, March 2008

Lukas Muntingh comments extensively on the Correctional Services Budget 2007/8 to 2009/10.
This newsletter looks at the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) MTEE focussing on five issues:
  1. The cost drivers and priorities in the budget;
  2. The real and nominal trends in the budget;
  3. The internal distribution of the budget between DCS programmes;
  4. The prison construction programme'
  5. Budget trends and the White Paper on Corrections; and
  6. The budget in relation to other budgets in the crime and security cluster