The security company running the prison G4S was removed while three Correctional Service officials were suspended.
JOHANNESBURG - The Department of Correctional Services said the escape of the Facebook Rapist, Thabo Bester, from the Mangaung Correctional Centre pointed to an institution that was paralysed in terms of security systems.
Private security company G4S was removed from running the prison as per Section 112 of the Correctional Services Act.Bester escaped from the privately-run maximum-security prison in May in 2022 by faking his death in a prison fire.Patrick Mashabathakga, head of C Max at the Kgosi Mampuru Prison, will temporarily replace Johan Theron, who was director of the Mangaung Prison for 23 years.
“All systems that were supposed to hold on the day that the escape happened did not hold at all, and the most worrying factor is that the human factor played a major role in this escape.”Thobakgale said while the prison was run by G4S, Correctional Services personnel couldn’t be exonerated. The three DCS officials were suspended for failing to play an oversight role for the security company that ran the prisons.
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