Ndebele: SA has highest prison population in Africa
- 11 Feb 2013 14:46 - Sapa
- South Africa has the highest prison population in Africa, says Correctional Services Minister Sbu Ndebele.
Correctional Services worst employer 'with honours', claims trade union
- 23 Dec 2012 10:29 - Sapa
- The department of correctional services is the worst employer of 2012 "with honours", trade union Solidarity has said.
Report shows sorry state of South Africa's prisons
- 15 Oct 2012 06:23 - Ilham Rawoot
- The correctional services department owes about R1.3-billion in damages to prisoners and former inmates for bodily injury and rape while in prison.
Free to sing: A chorus of convicts
- 30 Mar 2012 00:00 - Phillip De Wet
- Jailbirds sang like angels to an elite crowd at the Durban International Convention Centre for the National Offender Choir Competition.
M&G in court over Bosasa sources
- 17 Feb 2012 00:00 - Faranaaz Parker
- Ability to protect sources is crucial to exposing corruption, says the M&G.
Storm over prison staff demographics in W Cape
- 18 Oct 2011 10:22 - Staff Reporter
- Senior Western Cape officials are taking the correctional services department to court, saying they have been denied promotions because of their race.
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Derby-Lewis to challenge parole denial
- 26 Aug 2011 16:44 - Staff Reporter
- Convicted murderer Clive Derby-Lewis plans to challenge the department of correctional services on its decision not to grant him parole.
Campaign to stop torture and cruelty
- 19 Aug 2011 00:00 - Lynley Donnelly
- South Africa's failure to criminalise torture in domestic law leaves many citizens vulnerable to gross human rights abuses while in state custody.
Prisons minister visits 'torture victim'
- 20 Jul 2011 18:12 - Staff Reporter
- Correctional Services Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula visited the alleged torture victim, saying ill treatment of inmates would not be tolerated.
Food and love where bullets fly
- 01 Apr 2011 00:00 - Glynnis Underhill
- A Cape Flats school provides a haven in a community terrorised by gang warfare.
