The uncovering of an alleged violent escape attempt by the ‘Isis trio’ led to a massive police presence at the Verulam Family Court in KwaZulu-Natal.
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.
A 42-year-old man tried to pass as his 19-year-old daughter in a bid to flee prison.
Vusi Mathibela is convinced someone is trying to poison him and is unhappy that prison guards will not allow his family to bring him food from outside the prison.
It’s one of South Africa’s longest-ever jail sentences. Mhlonipheni Mjadu will spend the best part of 300 years imprisoned: His rap sheet explains it all.
Despite this prison story actually being a pretty glum one, Jacob Zuma lifts the lid on a moment of comic relief that has had his Twitter followers in stitches.
Police officers on the scene are combing the building and surround precinct for clues.
Inmates will get an opportunity to register on 22 and 23 January.
A pre-dawn raid at Westville prison led to the discovery of hundreds of litres of industriously brewed beer.
The Christmas crackdown has begun. Thanks to Operation Vala, a whole host of changes will make South African jails tougher nuts to crack.
The Ministry of Correctional Services have announced the extension of four prisons in a bid to tackle overcrowding.
After Coetzee Tyron Lee was sentenced to death in Vietnam, DIRCO lifted the lid on more South Africans jailed abroad.
The men were brutally tortured at the hands of police.
Could there be any error bigger than this?
South Africa’s dumbest criminals? We’d say so.
More egg on the face for Gauteng’s correctional facility teams
14 of the 16-strong group still remain at large
None of the escapees have been rearrested yet.
Vicki Momberg will now do time in prison after her racist rant went viral on social media. We have all the details from the sentencing.
Look out for Siphenathi Ntantiso, aged 21
Sihle Tshabalala was declared a child genius at the age of 16. By 19, he was a convicted criminal.
Oscar Pistorius has been involved in a prison brawl. The Department of Correctional Services has confirmed the news and revealed details on the injuries.
Police have since arrested five of the twenty jail break escapees, but many remain at large
Rusty Labuschagne shares his story and the valuable life lessons he learned after being wrongfully imprisoned for 10 years.
The country’s “dark” and “draconian” parole regulations are violating eligible prisoners’ rights by keeping them behind bars for too long, Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) told Parliament on Tuesday.