Prison officer Linda De Sousa Abreu sentenced to jail for 15 months having sex with inmates at HMP Wandsworth.

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 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.

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

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 ...

A Parliamentary question to Minister of Correctional Services, Pieter Groenewald, has revealed the scale of contraband in South African prisons, demonstrating that this scourge has reached crisis ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

CAPE TOWN - A five-year-old girl who has been living in a Mauritius prison since birth is set to be united with her South African family on home soil on Friday. The little girl's mother is ...