CORRECTIONAL Services minister Ben Skosana said on Tuesday that prison overcrowding will remain a problem well into the next millennium, and that by 2008 the numer of prisoners awaiting trial is expected to outnumber those serving sentences. Skosana said that prisoners awaiting trial will be a majority in Gauteng in 2002. According to Skosana, South Africa’s prisons are already at 159% capacity. Skosana said that a stop-gap solution to the problem is the construction of new prisons, as well as the enlargement of already existing prisons.Two new prisons will be opened next year in Kokstad and Empangeni.