📆In February, 2020, ⚖️the courts ordered the Department of Correctional Services to release documents related to a 10-month 🔍investigation of Mangaung prison under the control of private security companies. Full story here ➡️
'Facebook rapist' Thabo Bester is seen on a television screen in the Western Cape High Court on 2 May 2012. Picture: Gallo Images / The Times / Shelley ChristiansCorrectional Centre in the Free State, this is not the first time: it did so in 2013, after the private security contractor “lost effective control of the facility”.
Multiple media reports indicate that the prison is known for its spate of stabbings and a “worrying deterioration of safety and security”.The Mail & Guardian noted that the DCS served G4S with 29 financial penalties for violence which erupted in the prison since 14 September, 2013, totalling a reported R 1.44 million.
In February, 2020, the DCS was forced by a court order to release documents related to a 10-month investigation of Mangaung prison under the control of private security companies.“As expected, the report details a number of disturbing incidents involving officials, healthcare workers and their treatment of people incarcerated at Mangaung,” Centre for Applied Legal Studies’ attorney Sithuthukile Mkhize noted in a report on incidents in the G4Srun prison, published by Wits University.
“Officials also segregated incarcerated people without proper approval and taser guns were being purchased without any officials having been trained to use these weapons.”
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