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  • Pollsmoor prison in Tokai, Cape Town. Picture: EWN

    Operations at Pollsmoor to return to normal after days of unrest

    Inmates in the medium B section set mattresses alight on Monday to prevent prison officials and police from raiding a cell.

    1366 days ago
  • FILE: Pollsmoor Prison in Tokai, Cape Town. Picture: EWN

    JICS launches probe in Pollsmoor violent clashes

    The Correctional Services Department says the action was taken after several stabbings over the weekend.

    1367 days ago
  • FILE: Picture: Bertram Malgas/EWN.

    Correctional Services Dept investigating Pollsmoor violent clashes

    Officers tried to open one of the cells to conduct searches when inmates barricaded doors, started breaking cell windows and set mattresses alight.

    1368 days ago
  • FILE: Pollsmoor prison in Tokai, Cape Town. Picture: Bertram Malgas/EWN

    Correctional Services: Prison overcrowding remains serious problem

    The department says that nationwide, it currently has a bed capacity for 120,000 inmates, but currently caters to 161,000.

    1369 days ago
  • FILE: The High Court in Johannesburg. Picture: Christa Eybers/EWN

    Awaiting trial prisoner stabs officer during failed escape attempt

    It’s understood the inmate used a sharp object to stab the official twice before attempting to escape from the High Court in Johannesburg on Monday.

    1370 days ago
  • Two Correctional Services officials have been arrested in connection with the prison escape of 16 inmates. Picture: @FraudWatchZA/Twitter

    Parliament welcomes arrest of warders in Joburg prison escape case

    Evidence presented to the committee on Thursday shows the number of escapes from facilities was in fact on the decrease.

    1494 days ago
  • Two Correctional Services officials have been arrested in connection with the prison escape of 16 inmates. Picture: @FraudWatchZA/Twitter

    Warders arrested for helping 16 prisoners escape from Joburg prison

    The Correctional Services officials are also expected in court on Friday morning.

    1494 days ago
  • FILE: Pollsmoor prison in Tokai, Cape Town. Picture: Bertram Malgas/EWN

    Parly committee wants answers from Justice Dept over prison escapes

    Parliament's Justice and Correctional Services Portfolio Committee says it is extremely concerned because in some cases, offenders serving long sentences for serious crimes have escaped, putting innocent people's lives at risk.

    1501 days ago
  • Siphenathi Ntansiso, one of the six Pollsmoor Prison inmates who escaped on 11 March, is reportedly still on the run. Picture: EWN

    Last Pollsmoor fugitive still on the run

    Six inmates broke out through bars and over a fence at the correctional facility’s Medium B Section late on Sunday evening.

    1532 days ago
  • Picture: Supplied

    Dept seeks amicable solution to Barberton prison hunger strike

    The prisoners, who are serving life sentences, are refusing to eat as part of their protest over parole.

    1589 days ago
  • Picture: Supplied

    Man killed at Stellenbosch Cubana 'not allowed' to be at club

    Donovan Jacobs was on parole when he was gunned down more than a week ago.

    1673 days ago
  • Picture: Supplied

    Probe underway after NW prison warder commits suicide

    A picture on social media appears to show the warder being intimate with an inmate.

    1679 days ago
  • Picture: Supplied

    Zuma authorises SIU probe of Correctional Services Dept

    The SIU will be able to investigate a number of allegations including the unlawful appropriation of public money.

    1743 days ago
  • FILE: An image circulated on social media of the prison strippers at the Johannesburg Correctional Centre. Picture: Twitter

    Joburg prison scandal: Union to represent 4 suspended warders

    The association claims the photos in their possession show the women dressed in appropriate and suitable dancing attire.

    1781 days ago
  • FILE: An image circulated on social media of the prison strippers at the Johannesburg Correctional Centre. Picture: Twitter

    Union: Pictures from prison ‘strip show’ were manipulated

    A trade union alleges photographs of women entertaining inmates at a Johannesburg prison were manipulated.

    1782 days ago
  • An image circulated on social media of the prison strippers at the Johannesburg Correctional Centre. Picture: Twitter

    Motshekga: Joburg prison scandal a reflection of moral degeneration

    Chairperson of Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services Mathole Motshekga says the country's fading moral compass was exposed at the Johannesburg Prison on youth day.

    1790 days ago
  • An image circulated on social media of the prison strippers at the Johannesburg Correctional Centre. Picture: Twitter

    Parly committee to visit Johannesburg prison following stripper scandal

    Correctional Services officials say this form of entertainment is not in line with the department’s procedures and policies and it was not approved.

    1790 days ago
  • Acting Correctional Services Commissioner James Smalberger.  Picture: Christa Eybers/EWN

    #PrisonStrippers: ‘There was a clear breach of security’

    The Johannesburg Central Prison is home to some of the country’s most dangerous convicts however, it's emerged half-naked women were allowed on Youth Day.

    1792 days ago
  • Sand art at Puri Beach in India to mark World TB Day. Picture: @sudarsansand/Twitter.

    Correctional Services tackles TB in prisons

    The Department of Correctional Services says it is committed to fighting tuberculosis through its healthcare programme at South African prisons.

    1886 days ago
  • FILE: St Alban’s Prison in Port Elizabeth. Picture: Google Maps.

    Dept launches probe into fatal St Albans Prison clash

    3 inmates died and 13 prison officials were injured when a group of inmates attacked prison warders after a shift change.

    1972 days ago
  • FILE: The Constitutional Court. EWN.

    Correctional Services staff promoted after ConCourt ruling

    Today, the Constitutional Court found that Correctional Services was wrong not to promote them.

    2137 days ago
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