Vision
To be an excellent organization in correctional services.
Mission
To promote a just and secure society through efficient and effective management of offenders and administration of justice.
Core Values
| Professionalism | Competent, respectful and considerable work performance |
| Transparency and Accountability | Openness, trust and responsibility |
| Integrity | Uphold honest and ethical principles |
| Reliability | Performing consistently |
| Confidentiality | Maintain high levels of privacy in work performance |
| Fairness | Impartial and just without favoritism or discrimination |
| Respect for human dignity | Uphold human rights |
| Partnerships | Collaboration and teamwork in service delivery |
Strategic Objectives
- Strengthen the administrative, legal and policy coordination
- Privide Secure and humane containment of offenders
- Rehabilitate and reform custodial offenders
- Generate information for dispensation of justice
- Mordernize prison farms and industries for purpose of vocationaL training and production
- Enhance staff welfare and capacity development
- Enhance non-custodial offender supervision
- Improve on offender non-custodial rehabilitation
- Develop victim of offences support programme
- Enhance the level of offender reintegration and resettlement
- Develop and implement integrated crime prevention programme
- Enhance leadership and integrity in service delivery
Functions
Kenya Prisons Service
Containment of offenders in humane and safe conditions in order to facilitate responsive administration of justice, rehabilitation, social integration and community protection
Probation and Aftercare Services
Promotion and enhancement of the administration of justice, community safety and public protection through provision of social inquiry reports, supervision and reintegration of non-custodial offenders, victim support and social crime prevention
Administration of State Department of Correctional and Rehabilitation Service
Provision of effective and efficient policy direction, coordination and management of all affairs in the State Department of Correctional and Rehabilitation Service