The Act seeks to provide amongst others, for a correctional system the establishment, functions and control of the Department of Correctional Services the custody of all offenders under conditions of human dignity the rights and obligations of sentenced offenders the rights and obligations of unsentenced offenders a system of community corrections release from correctional centres and placement under correctional supervision, on day parole and parole a National Council for Correctional Services a Judicial Inspectorate Independent Correctional Centre Visitors repeal and amendment of certain laws and matters connected therewith.