The Mandate of the State Department for Correctional Services is derived from the Executive Order No. 1 of June, 2018 (Revised). These include:

• Containment and safe custody of Inmates;
• Supervision, Rehabilitation, reformation and reintegration of offenders;
• Facilitation of the administration of justice;
• Treatment of young offenders in Correctional Institutions and Youth Corrective Training Centers;
• Provision of facilities for children aged four years and below accompanying their mothers in Prison; and
• Generation and provision information to courts and penal institutions