Category Single Adults Nursing mothers Babies Juveniles Total Total 368 19 1912 6213 449 The Centre has a large textile workshop where 69 inmates are trained to produce clothes, including juvenile shirts, orange short sleeve shirts, underpants, duvet covers, and offenders’ property bags. They produce prison uniforms for prisons all over the country with a target of about 3,000 a month. The workshop has modern equipment and professional trainers to teach the inmates. The section has its own clinic with a nurse and a doctor who visits twice a week, a kitchen, a store for food, a religious house, and a gymnasium and aerobics area. They are provided with food three times a day. They are also provided with a bar of soap monthly and sanitary towels – but the latter are provided only after the inmates prove to the authorities concerned that they are menstruating. Sick inmates, especially those suffering from HIV/AIDS are provided with special diets. The female juvenile inmates occupy a separate section within the Centre. Their ages range from 15 to 2114. Of the 62 juveniles, 1 is 15 years, 1 is 16 years, 4 are 17 years and 56 between 18 –21 years. The female section also has a unit for nursing mothers called the Mother-Child Unit. The mother and child unit is in a separate section within the Centre and holds only prisoners with babies. Prisoners in this section are in single cells measuring 3m x 4m. They are not locked into their cells during the day but are restricted within the section. The children have an area of about 50m within the section to play around. At the time of the visit there were 16 children – 10 males and 6 females, in the unit. There was no expectant mother. The children are provided with special diet – milk and fruits. The mothers are given two soaps a month for themselves and the babies. They however complained that the food given to the children was not enough. The authorities do not allow relatives to bring food and other items for the children – such as juices and extra food. They also need extra nappies for the children. According to the inmates, the authorities allowed only the following items to be given to the kids – chocolate milk, ordinary milk, noodles, baby juice, cerelac and maltivite. They argue that these items are for children of one year and under but there are children who are more than one year to three years who need more than just the items provided by the authorities. The inmates would like prison authorities to allow their relatives to provide these items. 12 Babies in prison are excluded from the total because they are not prisoners. There are 9 boys and 10 girls with ages ranging from 6 months to 3 years. 13 The juveniles can be further categorised as follows – sentenced (28) and persons awaiting trial 34). 14 In terms of South African law, a juvenile is anyone below 25 years. 42