To amend the Correctional Services Act, 1998, so as to insert, substitute amend or delete certain definitions; to make further provision for the manner in which prisoners are detained; and for the manner in which correctional centres are to be managed; to authorise the Minister of Correctional Services to determine, under certain conditions, the period before a prisoner may be placed on parole; to make further provision for matters relating to Correctional Supervision and Parole Boards and the Judicial Inspectorate; to provide for compliance management and monitoring of relevant prescriptions; a Departmental Investigation Unit and a unit dealing with the institution of disciplinary procedures; to further regulate matters relating to officials of the Department of Correctional Services; and the powers of the Minister to make regulations; and to provide for matters connected therewith.