As a component of the criminal justice system, correctional institutions play a critical role in dispensing justice, in particular, and maintaining peace and order, in general.

Through the Bureau of Corrections, the correctional institutions provide for the effective safekeeping and rehabilitation of offenders. The rehabilitation component is undertaken through educational, therapeutic, productive, and restorative practices that look at offenders as humanely and as constructively as possible.

As the primary correctional agency that provides custody and rehabilitation of convicted prisoners who are sentenced to serve more than three years of imprisonment, the Bureau of Corrections, an agency under the Department of Justice, works with many other agencies.

The Bureau of Corrections believes that the support of the community is most important in the rehabilitation of national offenders.

It is for this reason that the Bureau of Corrections leads in the celebration of the annual National Correctional Awareness Week, an event that hope to develop among the public a positive perspective on the role of correctional institutions.

With an unwavering belief and an unending advocacy to maintain the dignity of man, the men and women of Bureau of Corrections and the offenders under its custody deserve to be given the support they need.