THE most senior correctional services official in the Western Cape has threatened to stop accepting new inmates from the end of June, saying the province’s prisons are already packed to capacity and nothing is being done to alleviate the situation. Stephen Korabie, the Western Cape provincial commissioner, says the problem is largely due to a logjam in the justice system, which keeps some suspects behind bars for a year or longer while waiting to go to trial. ”I will close down the prisons,” Korabie told journalists, who on Monday were given a rare tour of Pollsmoor prison, which accommodates about 8000 inmates in appalling conditions.