5.4 Overcrowding 5.4.1 Overcrowding impedes service delivery to offenders, and makes humane conditions of incarceration nearly impossible. Given that unsentenced offenders, many of whom are in prison simply because they cannot afford bail set at as little as R300, are the main contributors to overcrowding, increased cooperation within the JCPS cluster is vital. Awareness must be raised among cluster members of the far-reaching implications, budgetary and otherwise, associated with overcrowding, and the DCS as the department responsible for remand detention, and the department feeling the brunt of its weight should drive that process.