Correctional Services

The state has alleged that self-described political fixer Brown Mogotsi planned to disguise himself as a correctional officer to escape from the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court…

The portfolio committee has demanded tougher action as thousands of illicit items flood prisons

Eighteen more prisoners were injured and the prison was gutted in a blaze started by rioting inmates

Submissions are being considered and a decision will follow by Thursday

The court said there was no reasonable prospects of success for an appeal on the judgment finding that his release on medical parole was unlawful

Without the political incentive for fundamental economic change, the fortunes and possibilities for rehabilitation of ex-offenders will not, and cannot, change

Family of Cape man who was beaten to death fights Juane Jacobs’s claim that he needs medical parole

The former president’s prison security will be handled by correctional services and there will not be given bodyguards or special security

The state capture inquiry confronts the corruption-accused MP on his track record of inaction on Bosasa, which made R7-billion off the state

Negligence and staff shortages are blamed for after two violent criminals escaped from the prison

If the rich and powerful are afforded amnesty, then so too must the poor who are often pushed into lives of crime

It will take the end of patriarchy and an efficient justice system to jail more offenders

Allegations of torture highlights the importance of the new national preventive mechanism and the need for independent custody monitoring

The prisons department says it has rehabilitation programmes. Others disagree, including an ex-inmate who says the only way to come right is to want to change

Anti-apartheid activist David Webster’s killer is now a free man after more than two decades behind bars