Latest articles on Correctional Services

Peacemaking criminology as ubuntu: A reply to Thuli Madonsela

Thought Leader Casper Lӧtter - 19 Nov 2020

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

Death penalty won’t stop sexual violence

Article Gushwell Brooks - 31 Jan 2020

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

Police torture continues

Article Sean Tait & David Bruce - 24 Jan 2020

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

Revolving door of crime and jail

National Lester Kiewit - 17 Jan 2020

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

Ferdi Barnard released on parole

Article Eyaaz Matwadia - 2 Apr 2019

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

Security clearance showdown as Arthur Fraser and IGI face off in court

Article Jenna Etheridge - 19 Apr 2018

The legal action will go ahead despite Fraser being transferred from his position as State Security Agency director general

Life behind bars: An inspecting judge of prisons unlocks inmates’ stories

Article Westhuizen 1 - 6 Sep 2017

South Africa’s jails have one of the lowest percentages of women prisoners in the world – but among the highest number of men

Justice is a misogynist so it’s little wonder that women get such a raw deal

Article Staff Reporter - 26 Aug 2016

There are many issues that need to be addressed to make it easier for women to get legal redress

Prisoners’ claims of torture ignored

Article Phillip De Wet - 27 May 2016

Inmates want the NPA to tell them why their jailers weren’t prosecuted.

Ndebele warns Waterkloof Four warders

Article Sapa - 18 Feb 2014

Any official found to have helped with a jail cell party for two of the "Waterkloof Four" will be punished, says the correctional services minister.

Rashied Staggie’s parole reinstated

Article Sapa - 15 Feb 2014

Former Hard Livings gang leader Rashied Staggie's day parole has been reinstated two months after it was revoked because he violated conditions.

Mangaung prison: Drugs, shock and torture by ‘ninjas’

Article Ruth Hopkins - 25 Oct 2013

Warders at the Mangaung Correctional Centre have allegedly meted out brutal and illegal punishments to Mangaung inmates.

Mangaung prison is a private hell

Article Ruth Hopkins - 25 Oct 2013

Forced anti-psychotics and shock therapy are par for the course at the correctional facility.

Ndebele ‘against stigmatisation of ex-offenders’

Article Sapa - 22 Sep 2013

Correctional Services minister Sibusiso Ndebele has called on South Africans not to judge offenders who've paid their dues to society.

Ndebele: Over 12 000 correctional officials ‘corrected’

Article Sapa - 19 Sep 2013

Correctional Services Minister Sibusiso Ndebele says there has been thousands of disciplinary hearings involving prisons staff.

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