Earlier this month it was announced that as many as 19,000 inmates who committed “petty” crimes could be released on parole provided they met certain conditions.
“We have consulted the department’s 2018/2019 annual report and it states that there were 162,587 warm bodies [inmates]. But our [prison] capacity as a country is 120,000. So they have to release more prisoners to ensure that our infrastructural capacity is protected.
However, the Public Service Association said the pandemic could not be used to gain freedom into a society from which one was removed. On Saturday, the number of infections in the correctional services department - for both prisoners and officials combined - stood at 388, but by Sunday the number had jumped to 571.
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