A prison watchdog has revealed that over 120 prisoners died of unnatural causes, with it receiving over 1 000 complaints of inmate assault.
Inmates during a raid from the Department of Correctional Services at Goodwood Correctional Centre in Cape Town on 18 July 2024. Picture: Gallo Images / Jaco Marais
This week, the Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services presented a report to Parliament that unveiled the severe conditions plaguing some of South Africa’s prisons. There were also 427 incidents of official-on-inmate assaults and 13 incidents of inmate-on-official assaults. The oversight body also highlighted several other issues, including unaffordable bail, prolonged periods awaiting trial, insufficient education and rehabilitation programmes — particularly for youth — and inadequate access to telephones.
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