Correctional services says no more information will be given on former police commissioner Jackie Selebi’s health because of the strain on his family.
Former police chief Jackie Selebi has been moved to the intensive care unit from the nephrology unit at Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria.
The North Gauteng High Court has ordered the correctional services department to release two of the Waterkloof Four into house arrest.
The correctional services department says it’s under no obligation to provide details on apartheid assassin Eugene de Kock’s parole hearing.
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/ 18 October 2011
Senior Western Cape officials are taking the correctional services department to court, saying they have been denied promotions because of their race.
The SAPS and the department of correctional services face legal claims worth billions of rands, according to their respective annual reports.
Convicted murderer Clive Derby-Lewis plans to challenge the department of correctional services on its decision not to grant him parole.
South Africa’s failure to criminalise torture in domestic law leaves many citizens vulnerable to gross human rights abuses while in state custody.
The photographs accompanying the <i>Sowetan</i>’s front page story on August 15 are "shocking" and border on pornography.
Correctional Services Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula visited the alleged torture victim, saying ill treatment of inmates would not be tolerated.
A Cape Flats school provides a haven in a community terrorised by gang warfare.
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/ 23 November 2010
The criminal justice system needs to do more to protect women living in abusive conditions, Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said on Tuesday.
Board expected to study all submissions and make their final recommendations to the National Council on Correctional Services within 30 days.
Schabir Shaik received permission from his parole officer to recuperate in a luxury lodge following his release from prison last year.
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/ 24 November 2009
Government watchdog Scopa wants President Jacob Zuma to recall former correctional services minister Ngconde Balfour as ambassador to Botswana.
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/ 11 November 2009
The Department of Correctional Services is heading into a ”long battle” with its suspended national commissioner.
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/ 1 September 2009
The acting chief financial officer of Correctional Services, Nandi Mareka, has been cleared of wrongdoing, the ministry said on Tuesday.
Eighty-eight correctional services officials have been suspended following industrial action, the department said on Friday.
The number of prisoners dying of natural causes has risen four-fold since 1996 while medical parole has only increased by 18%, said a report.
Kgalema Motlanthe on Tuesday said he would consider a request for a probe into the medical parole granted to Schabir Shaik if he received one.
Ngconde Balfour felt ”vindicated” by reports that appear to clarify allegations that Schabir Shaik remained in hospital despite being discharged.
The KwaZulu-Natal health department says fraud convict Schabir Shaik’s doctor, Professor DP Naidoo, has been misquoted, the SABC said on Monday.
The head of cardiology at Inkosi Albert Luthuli hospital discharged Schabir Shaik four months ago because he was considered well enough to leave.
Opposition parties on Tuesday slammed the release of convicted fraudster Schabir Shaik on medical parole.
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/ 5 February 2009
On Thursday night prisoners rights activist Golden Miles Bhudu (47) will bid his constituency farewell as he prepares to go home.
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/ 4 February 2009
The president must launch an urgent inquiry into alleged corruption within the Correctional Services Department, said the IFP on Wednesday.
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/ 30 January 2009
On Sunday the Department of Correctional Services placed advertisements urging anyone with proof of impropriety to inform law enforcement agencies.
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/ 23 January 2009
The prisons department has now awarded contracts worth more than R2,5-billion to companies in the Bosasa group in the past five years.
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/ 11 December 2008
Police are searching for three bank-robbery suspects who were apparently sprung from Pollsmoor prison this week by men posing as police officers.
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/ 18 November 2008
The date for a parole application by Clive Derby-Lewis, who is serving a life sentence for murder of SACP leader Chris Hani, is still to be set.
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/ 26 October 2008
Kgalema Motlanthe faces a political storm after his deputy ordered that the directors general of correctional services and sport swap jobs.
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/ 19 September 2008
Allowing Rastafarian warders to wear dreadlocks would ”open the floodgates” of indiscipline, says the area manager of Pollsmoor Prison.