Ordinarily, this Management Area is not supposed to hold juveniles but because the juveniles have further charges against them, they are detained in the prison until such time that they have been tried. Each section has its own clinic. There is however, one regional hospital within the prison with a ward containing 164 beds. Serious medical problems that cannot be handled by the hospital are referred to a public hospital. The Area also has developmental programmes. About 170 inmates are involved in vocational skills development, 12 in agricultural training, 47 in occupational skills and 55 in entrepreneurial skills. It has a staff strength of about 1,081 members. iv) Humewood Police Station The Humewood Police Station is located in the heart of Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Province of the Country. It covers an area of about 80 meters square. It has a staff strength of about 138 members. The police station has 26 cells and at the time of the visit, there were 28 inmates in six of the cells - 27 males and 1 female. Of these, 10 are foreigners. There are usually not more than 6 inmates in a cell. v) Durban Westville Prison or Management Area The Westville Prison or Durban Management Area is situated in the Kwa Zulu Natal Province on the outskirts of the provincial capital, Durban. The Area has as its motto “every official becoming a rehabilitator, every prison becoming a correctional center - a place of new beginnings, every offender becoming a nation server through correction”. The Durban Management Area is made up of six Correctional Centers or prisons and a community corrections component. They include the Durban Medium A, Durban Medium B, Durban Medium C, Durban Youth Center, Durban Female and Umzinto. The approved capacity for the six centers stands at 6,146. As at June 2004, the total offender population in all the centers stood at 12,244 – 5,648 awaiting trial prisoners, 6,596 sentenced and 19 babies. Apart from the 12,244 prisoners, the Area is also involved in community corrections with a total of 984 probationers and 1,233 parolees. 20 Special Rapporteur on Prisons Mission to South Africa 14 – 30 June 2004

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