5.2.2 In 2009/10 the JICS reported that although the level of incarceration had dropped to 139%, considerably lower than the 170% recorded at the end of the 2002/03 financial year, South Africa's incarceration rate remained the highest in Africa and one of the highest in the world. At that time nineteen of South Africa's 239 operational correctional centres recorded levels of overcrowding greater than 200%. The JICS reported that, as is to be expected, conditions of incarceration at these centres were inhumane and did not comply with constitutional requirements governing detention.