8. Recommendations 8.1 Category of offenders incarcerated at the new generation prisons 8.1.1 Both new generation centres visited were designed to accommodate adult male offenders serving relatively long to life sentences. While all offenders should be provided with care and development programmes, the roll-out of such programmes to juvenile and those serving short sentences should be prioritised, as they stand to benefit most, given that such programmes are designed to reduce recidivism. The region has already submitted a proposal that one of the New Kimberley Correctional Centre's housing blocks be converted for the incarceration of juvenile offenders, and the Committee eagerly awaits the outcome of that process. The DCS accordingly explore all avenues that would enable them to accommodate juvenile and short-term offenders at both the PPP correctional centres, the New Kimberley Correctional Centre as well as all future new generation centres. 8.1.2 Concern was raised that the centres visited only accommodated men and that therefore male offenders only will benefit from the state of the art rehabilitation services offered at the centres. Cognisant of the fact that women make up a small percentage of South Africa's prison population and that correctional centres accommodating women had to adhere to the United Nations Minimum Standards for the detention of women, and that such adherence would require certain structural adjustments, the Committee nevertheless recommends that ways in which women can also be accommodated at the centres be explored, so that they too could benefit from the programmes offered there.