13 the foot of 109) that - "the fact remain that the provision of further alternatives to imprisonment is still the penal reformer's most insistent demand." In South Africa the year 1991 saw a radical shift in penal policy. To the list of sentences which might be passed upon a person convicted of an offence, there was added by s 41(a) of Act 122 of 1991 a new type of sentence called correctional supervision. In the same year the Prisons Act No 8 of 1959 became the Correctional Services Act No 8 of 1959. And by s 28 of the Correctional Services and Supervision Matters Amendment Act, 122 of 1991 ("the amending Act") there was inserted in Act 8 of 1959 a new chapter headed "CORRECTIONAL