Popcru says calls for Lamola to resign over Bester saga ‘shift the blame’: The president of the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union says calls for justice and correctional services minister Ronald Lamola to resign over the department's poor handling of…
“We got information from them that the Bester escape took place while some of them were not at work but with others knowing what was happening who were kept in abeyance by authorities. It was something that was well planned,” he said.
“Members also told us, 'you know these people [prisoners], you don't call them prisoners, you call them clients'. How do you have a client who is incarcerated?” Cebekhulu-Makhaza asked. “It has been our position from the beginning that private prisons are not going to work in our environment because they are very selective in how safe incarcerated prisoners are.
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