Lice, grime, broken toilets and six-hour waits for visitors: life is tough in Cape Town’s Pollsmoor prison.
Chilling new claims of inmate abuse at the embattled Mangaung prison in the Free State have emerged.
The inability of warders to handle increasing violence is turning the infamous Johannesburg prison into a sexual predator’s haven.
Amid a mix of unemployment and rampant drug addiction, and in alleged complicity with police, druglords have stepped into the gap left by the gangs.
The wheels of justice are turning slowly in the case of a Free State jail accused of torturing its inmates.
Everything is under control at the troubled prison, correctional services assured this week. But the inmates there tell a different, harrowing story.
Despite legal reforms, prisoners are spending many years behind bars before going on trial.
The Mangaung prison crisis has put the failure of private security before Parliament.
Warders at the Mangaung Correctional Centre have allegedly meted out brutal and illegal punishments to Mangaung inmates.
Forced anti-psychotics and shock therapy are par for the course at the correctional facility.