One wonders if clowns are running the circus in SA prisons.
PAUL ASH
It’s unlikely anyone is deluded enough to think that prison is a fun place to be. Especially in a country where the jails are stuffed to overflowing with all manner of hardened, violent criminals. The prison has been privately managed since it opened for suffering, sorry, business in 2001. It has room for just under 3,000 inmates.
The same presentation contains comments from then corrections minister Ngconde Balfour, who said: “You have proven that rehabilitation of offenders is not a dream” and that the management was “going well beyond expectations and the inmates are the main beneficiaries of this approach”.
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