Correctional Services says more than 30,000 foreign nationals are in SA prisons and housing them costs about R5.4bn a year. Transfers and MOUs with neighbours are...
KZN Police Commissioner Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi told MPs prisons are becoming ‘breeding grounds’ for gangs, raising concerns about contraband and staff misconduct.
IOL reports inmates at Kgosi Mampuru allegedly paid R240 for bunks and faced sexual coercion. Correctional Services says it will investigate the serious allegations.
Israel has reportedly redesignated the Nile crocodile as a “tended wild animal,” a change that media say could remove a legal obstacle to an earlier proposal...
Minister of Correctional Services Pieter Groenewald has told Parliament that 2,388 correctional officials were subjected to disciplinary action in the 2025/26 financial year amid investigations into...
When the Equality Court in Johannesburg convenes this Friday, it will hear a case that could reshape how South African prisons treat transgender inmates. At the...