Prison
Scuffle between prisoners, wardens in PMB prison leaves 1 inmate dead
The Correctional Services Department on Sunday said inmates, classified as maximum risk, attacked officials at the centre on Friday.
Police report that in a separate incident of lightning killed two children near Harare.
This comes after the Department of Correctional Services announced that Zuma underwent a surgical procedure on Saturday and is scheduled to go through others soon.
It goes without saying that former President Jacob Zuma is no ordinary inmate. So, who decides where he will be serving his 15-month jail sentence and what is the process of being admitted as a prisoner?
Frikkie van Staden was sentenced in the Oudtshoorn Regional Court on Wednesday.
The High Court on Friday found that the convicted killer was 17-years-old when he murdered Enrico Kasterivier in 2019.
Ntabo Ntaberi Sheka was convicted of "murder, rape, sexual slavery, enlisting children under 15 years old" a decade ago, a military court ruled.
The bail application of Omotoso, and his two co-accused was on Wednesday dismissed. The trio's accused of several offences including rape and human trafficking.
The South African Prisoners Organisation for Human Rights says government needs to expand its category for prisoners who qualify for the parole dispensation.
The Department of Correctional Services said both had other medical conditions.
The country has 22,000 inmates, though the prisons are only built to hold 17,000.
The letter added that the deaths were as a result of years of severe understaffing and neglect at Mississippi’s prisons, NBC said.
It's aimed at preventing the smuggling of contraband.
The 'Keeping Up with the Kardashians' star met with President Donald Trump on Wednesday to discuss prison reform as part of her ongoing push to free prisoners serving draconian sentences.
The Department of Education report traces how that shift has impacted state and local budgets.
The Correctional Services Department says it appears the inmates carefully planned their escape.
An exclusive look inside one of South Africa's prisons as inmates smoke mandrax inside one of their overcrowded cells.
Popcru says the majority of former inmates return to crime because they don’t receive necessary skills.
The prisoners reportedly overpowered an officer at the Lentegeur Police Station on Saturday.