3.1 Focal Areas 3.1.1 At the start of its term the Committee identified seven focal areas to be pursued during its five-year term. Oversight activities were therefore focussed on ensuring: steady progress towards the DCS's stability at senior management level, and improved financial management; better management of the inmate population through improved remand detainee-management in particular; appropriate, safe and secure inmate incarceration through improved facilities management and procurement; a reduction in recidivism through improved rehabilitation, care and development programmes; better reintegration through improved community awareness of the DCS's rehabilitation and reintegration efforts and improved parole administration; that inmate- rights and -privileges contribute to their rehabilitation and reintegration; and ensuring that the DCS met its obligation in terms of the Justice Crime Prevention and Security (JCPS) cluster efforts to streamline the justice system.