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South Africans have debated whether or not prisoners should be allowed social media accounts behind bars. Images via TikTok: @babakspheangel
lifestyle

PrisonTok: SA shares concern over prisoners on social media

Prison-From Streets to Cells: A Journey of Hardships and Consequences
News

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Dance in prison
World News

Dance classes giving more prisoners hope

South Africans have debated whether or not prisoners should be allowed social media accounts behind bars. Images via TikTok: @babakspheangel
Lifestyle

PrisonTok: SA shares concern over prisoners on social media

Prison-From Streets to Cells: A Journey of Hardships and Consequences
News

WATCH: Government advised to stop private prisons [Video]

Dance in prison
World News

Dance classes giving more prisoners hope

Prisoners
News

Six killed in Philippine jail brawl

By Agence France-Presse11-01-2022 07:19

Six inmates were killed and 33 wounded during a fight in an overcrowded jail in the Philippines, authorities said Tuesday, in the second such incident in as many weeks.

inmates Kgosi Mampuru
News

President Ramaphosa to parole almost 19 000 prisoners due to COVID-19

By Luke Daniel08-05-2020 12:58

The decision comes after a call from the United Nations to depopulate prison systems.

Radovan Krejcir
News

Radovan Krejcir fearing for his life in prison after transfer bid rejected

By Nick Krige10-08-2019 15:16

Krejcir’s latest in a long line of bids to be moved or released from the Leeuwkop Maximum security prison involves an alleged plot against his life.

Prison
News

Brazil gang leader is found dead after a failed prison break dressed as girl

By Buhle Lindwa06-08-2019 18:32

A 42-year-old man tried to pass as his 19-year-old daughter in a bid to flee prison.

prisoners
News

Prison boss suspended over viral videos of inmates

By Nick Krige03-07-2019 16:41

Minister of justice and correctional services Ronald Lamola has released a statement addressing videos of inmates allegedly taking drugs in prison.

Zimbabwe
News

Prisons under siege as Zimbabwe’s economic woes persist

By AFP18-06-2019 07:07

More than 100 prisoners have died of malnutrition-related illnesses.

elections 2019 prisoners
News

Elections 2019: Prisoners exercise their right to vote

By SAnews08-05-2019 09:27

Even the South Africa’s forgotten segment of society has a say in these elections.

South African prisoners vote 2019 elections
News

South African prisons overpopulated and failing to address mental health issues

By Luke Daniel15-10-2018 15:52

South Africa’s uncomfortably high crime rate is directly related to a burgeoning prison population, but there’s more to it than that.

South African prisoners vote 2019 elections
News

Should ex-offenders in South Africa get a resettlement grant?

By The Conversation02-10-2018 17:07

The grant proposal by the Department of Correctional Services is an innovative idea and should be taken seriously.

Things invented by south africans
Lifestyle

Ipsos have ranked South Africans as “the most ignorant in the world”

By Tom Head07-08-2018 09:13

Don’t shoot the messenger on this one. Out of a 38-country study, SA topped the table for all the wrong reasons.

Supreme Court of Appeal
News

Government to officially launch “Mandela Rules” for SA prisoners

By Nic Andersen17-05-2018 18:08

The Mandela rules are used in many countries across the globe.

local prisoner
Video

Watch: Local prisoner seen counting money freely in jail cell [video]

By Nic Andersen09-11-2017 17:44

A video of a local prisoner casually counting his money in jail has angered many South Africans on social media. SA prison system eh?

Watch: Violent chaos as riot b
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Watch: Violent chaos as riot breaks out at Pretoria prison [video]

By Nic Andersen03-07-2017 11:23

A warden was beaten with a brick.

Extraordinary twist in #Prison
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Extraordinary twist in #PrisonStrippers saga: One of the dancers denies they are strippers

By Tom Head27-06-2017 15:06

Maybe they were just performing a strip search?

Could emptier prisons be part
Opinion

Could emptier prisons be part of South Africa’s developing landscape?

By Caryn Edwards10-08-2016 12:10

Some European countries are experiencing a strange phenomenon – empty prisons. Last week the Dutch Justice Ministry announced that the number of inmates in Dutch prisons had fallen 27 percent between 2011 and 2015.

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