6.6 Overcrowding As stated in previous reports overcrowding impedes service delivery to offenders, and makes humane conditions of incarceration impossible. Given that unsentenced offenders, many of whom are in prison simply because they cannot afford bail are the main contributors to overcrowding, increased cooperation within the JCPS cluster is vital to ensure increased use of non-custodial sentencing, the bail protocol and the relevant provisions of the Criminal Procedure Act. Awareness must be raised among cluster members of the far-reaching budgetary and other implications, associated with overcrowding.