Parliament’s correctional services committee received a briefing from the department, as well as the Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services or JICS.
CAPE TOWN - Prisons authorities have told Parliament of several challenges plaguing correctional facilities, from suicides to overcrowding, because detainees can’t afford bail.
MPs on Tuesday heard how there’d been a"vast ballooning" of prisoners serving life sentences from under 500 in 1995 to over 18,000 in 2024. Cameron told the committee that a lack of crime intelligence was at the centre of the current situation.
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