2.4 Pretoria Female Correctional Centre 2.4.1 The Pretoria Female Correctional Centre is in the Pretoria management area which comprises five correctional centres, among which, the Pretoria Central and Local correctional centres. 2.4.2 The Centre was designed to accommodate 166 offenders, but at the time of the visit accommodated 256 sentenced and 70 unsentenced offenders. Eight of the sentenced and one of the unsentenced offenders were incarcerated with their babies, whose ages ranged from 2 weeks to 20 months. The population included six unsentenced juveniles, 16 unsentenced 'youths', 40 sentenced "youths" and two children, one sentenced and one unsentenced. 2.4.3 The Centre had a financed staff establishment of 103, and at the time of the visit had 20 vacancies. The Centre had no social worker. 2.4.4 All centres in the management area have implemented the Seven-Day Establishment (7DE), and all but the Female centre operated on a 2 x 12 shift system. Owing to acute staff shortages over weekends, the Female Centre operated on a 5- shift system during the week, and a 4- shift system over weekends. 2.4.5 The delegation also visited the workshops where Members interacted with sentenced offenders from the Pretoria Local and Female centres working in the upholstery, textile, woodwork and steel workshops.