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Officials surprises parolees at their homes

The aim is to check how they were conducting themselves after being rehabilitated, we also aim to encourage them to avoid absconding from doing community service.

MSOGWABA – Officials from the Department of Correctional Services recently paid a surprise visit to five parolees in this area.

The visit was part of the officials’ duties to check and monitor how the ex-offenders, released on parole, were doing and how they treat their families.

“This is one of our special monitoring programmes whereby we visit our parolees, we don’t tell them when they will be visited. The aim is to check how they were conducting themselves after being rehabilitated, we also aim to encourage them to avoid absconding from doing community service,” explained Capt Winnie Skonela, the department’s liaison officer.

More details to follow on the printed edition of Mpumalanga News.

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