The KwaZulu-Natal provincial commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi said the prison system does not rehabilitate ...

The amount of illegal items in South African prisons has become a major crisis. Democratic Alliance (DA) deputy spokesperson on Correctional Services, Kabelo Kgobisa-Ngcaba, said the growing issue ...

The unrest that broke out in Mozambique just before Christmas has been linked to 125 deaths and a mass prison break. The ...

In an exclusive interview with eNCA, the convicted criminal reveals how he escaped from a maximum prison in Maputo. The inmates escaped after exchanging gunfire with prison police after local ...

The scale of contraband in South African prisons needs the government to have both political will and solid strategy to curb criminal activities within and beyond prison walls, experts say.

Although more beds have been added to South Africa’s prison system, more prisons are needed to ease the overcrowding in the nation’s correctional services. Responding to a parliamentary Q&A ...

That’s according to one inmate who has admitted to bribing South African officials to gain entry into the country on Christmas Day.

In the case of Marieke Kruger, motivation comes from God and prisoners. In South African prisons, the statistics for recidivism (relapse into criminal behaviour) are high, among the highest in the ...

Officials from the Department of Social Development have arrived in Mauritius to repatriate a five-year-old child born to a mother serving a prison sentence for drug trafficking on the island. The ...

Walus, 71, served nearly 30 years of a life sentence for Hani's murder in a South African prison. In 2022 he was released on parole, sparking protests in South Africa where some said it re-opened ...