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Correctional services grilled over contraband crisis
The portfolio committee has demanded tougher action as thousands of illicit items flood prisons
Prisons commissioner orders inquiry in response to M&G ‘holidays in hospital’ exposé
A deputy commissioner will investigate claims that wealthy prisoners are buying themselves preferential treatment in jail
Prisons, profits and privatisation’s perils
We are bound to run into trouble when the private sector is given free rein to determine who is deserving of being treated as human and who is not
G4S asks for ‘parliamentary privilege’ over Thabo Bester escape
The company says contractual restrictions limit its interaction with the public, stopping it from giving its side of the story to the legislature
Fugitive Thabo Bester escaped with inside help – correctional services
The department will immediately take over the management of Mangaung Prison from multinational private security company G4S