The Muslim Prison Board is the official organization recognized by the DCS, representing all Muslim Offenders in the Correctional Centres. The Muslim Prison Board believes that spiritual guidance is the cornerstone of rehabilitation, transformation, and re-integration, and that Muslim inmates should remain at all times beneficiaries of spiritual and religious knowledge through the visits of the respective Muslim Spiritual Care Workers.
One of the primary objectives of the Muslim Prison Board for prison welfare is to regularly visit Muslim Inmates incarcerated in prison and uplift them spiritually by educating them in the fundamentals of Islam and exposing them to Islamic practices. We hope to provide an Islamic alternative to the reduction and minimizing of crime in South Africa.
Visiting of offenders in prisons has been on-going since the late 70’s through the efforts of the late Dr Achmat Davids and the late chairman, Imam Abdurahman Bassier. In fact, the South African Muslim Prison Board owes its very existence to Imam Bassier (RA).
