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FILE: The Department of Correctional Services has trained 9,500 inmates in plumbing, welding, building, carpentry and electrical engineering in the past two years. Picture: Taurai Maduna/EWN.

Correctional services ministry

Correctional Services Dept empowers inmates

By Eyewitness News

About 9,500 inmates have been trained as artisans over the past two years at a cost of R50 million.

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