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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.
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JICS launches probe in Pollsmoor violent clashes
The Correctional Services Department says the action was taken after several stabbings over the weekend.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Warders arrested for helping 16 prisoners escape from Joburg prison
The Correctional Services officials are also expected in court on Friday morning.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Probe underway after NW prison warder commits suicide
A picture on social media appears to show the warder being intimate with an inmate.
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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.
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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.
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Union: Pictures from prison ‘strip show’ were manipulated
A trade union alleges photographs of women entertaining inmates at a Johannesburg prison were manipulated.
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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.
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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.
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#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.
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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.
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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.
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Correctional Services staff promoted after ConCourt ruling
Today, the Constitutional Court found that Correctional Services was wrong not to promote them.
