SCORE: C In 2025, Groenewald stepped down from his leadership role in the Freedom Front Plus to focus on his ministerial duties. In June, parliament’s portfolio committee on correctional services warned of a projected R1.4 billion overspend for the department for the 2024/25 fiscal year. It flagged food costs, a high number of inmates, rising […]
The department is implementing a formal strategy to curb irregular expenditure and align procurement with the treasury
A deputy commissioner will investigate claims that wealthy prisoners are buying themselves preferential treatment in jail
Convicted rapist and murderer Thabo Bester showed police officers a fraudulent identity document after being apprehended for speeding in July 2022
The former former Paralympian was jailed for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013
Should Brannon Petersen only be reconsidered to be released in August next year, he would have spent 27 years in prison, ten years after his indefinite sentence expired
Twenty-two years after being handed two life sentences, Luyanda Mboniswa will be released on parole
Correctional services wants input as it considers a court order that says the former president must return to jail because his medical parole was unlawful
Police will meet Parow residents on Tuesday, two days ahead of his release under house arrest in that area
The former president will return home once his treatment is complete, his foundation said after a concourt decision made plain he must return to prison
Norman Simons was charged with 22 murders but only convicted of kidnapping and killing a 10-year-old in Mitchells Plain
Tiaan Eilerd has said the government must be held responsible when it releases an offender who goes on to commit murder or rape
Police trade union president calls for an end to the public-private prison system, citing the foreign company is more concerned with profit than rehabilitation
What would have happened if nobody had blown the whistle on the escape
Police say that more suspects are likely to be arrested
The company says contractual restrictions limit its interaction with the public, stopping it from giving its side of the story to the legislature
However, abuse and torture at the prison have improved, the Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services says
Pistorius, who killed Reeva Steenkamp in 2013, will only become eligible for parole in August next year
It’s had a 99% success rate for parolees and probationers complying with release conditions over three years but an expert believes the system needs an overhaul
Moyhdian Pangkaeker evaded the justice system for about four years during which time he twice absconded while on parole. He faces 27 charges, 24 of which he allegedly committed while on parole.
Moyhdian Pangkaeker absconded from parole twice yet was released on a warning three days after his arrest for assault in 2019, just months before the eight-year-old’s death
Some 347 cases of corruption were reported to the commission in the last quarter of 2021, with the majority of these relating to the South African Social Security Agency
The court set aside Arthur Fraser’s decision to release the former president on medical parole, rejecting his reasons as unconstitutional and irrational
Unlike the US, it is not foreigners that are subjected to torture and cruel treatment, but South Africans
If Jacob Zuma is our Nelson Mandela, what does that leave Mzwanele Manyi?
The suspended KZN prisons boss was barred from entering his office by armed security staff last week, at the behest of his national counterpart
The correctional services commissioner (and former spy boss tied to state capture) overruled the medical board’s dismissal of the former president’s application for parole
During his tenure as president he enabled state capture and the building of the prison industrial complex
A country is in flames. Two of its top men square off to say everything and nothing
South Africa reaches its benchmark to vaccinate more than 200 000 people in one day, and the nationwide drive to vaccinate inmates kicks off
Delaying the vaccination of prisoners could lead to a public health disaster
The former Bosasa chief operating officer failed to appear in court on corruption and fraud charges, citing medical reasons