ANGLICAN Archbishop of Cape Town Reverend Njongonkulu Ndungane asked the government during an visit to Umtata on Tuesday to reassure him that the controversial Supermax maximum security prison under construction outside Kokstad will apply rehabilitation principles. “We cannot allow our Southern African prisons to become places for exacting revenge and retribution,” he said in asking that a training and exercise centre and communal areas “where human relationships may be fostered” be built at the R240-million facility. “Imprisonment should be for the purposes of rehabilitation, correction and the security of society,” Ndungane said. “We know that continuous solitary confinement is a form of torture. We protested throughout the apartheid era against the holding of people in solitary confinement.”