NEWS RELATED TO department-of-correctional-services

State recovers R2.5m from G4S over Mangaung Correctional Centre corruption

It costs taxpayers between R800 and R1 000 a month to feed an inmate

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Oudtshoorn prison under control after fatal stabbing incident

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Court processes clogging prisons, hears correctional services committee

Crime

Inmates busted using smuggled cellphones to run scams from prison

WATCH: Death penalty and corporal punishment return suggested as Groenewald fires off warning

EDITOR'S CHOICE

South Africa Trump’s executive order affects SA Post Office service

World US appeals court finds Trump’s global tariffs illegal

News Nersa blunder on Eskom’s electricity tariffs triggers public backlash

Politics ‘They are hungry for positions’: ANC internal battles spill out in Joburg council meeting

News Here’s why a R17 million Lotto ‘winner’ never got his jackpot

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Cheap labour? Here’s how much prisoners earn in Correctional Services’ bakeries

Over 80% of sentenced inmates enrolled in corrective programmes

Graduation collapses after inmates refused to wear prison clothes

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WATCH: Why Oscar Pistorius and his father barely speak

Why Chris Hani’s killer went free but Alison Botha’s rapists went back to jail

Four officials suspended after inmate dies at Goodwood Correctional Centre

Courts

ConCourt rules inmates may use personal computers for studies

Crime

Warders arrested for death of inmate at Mangaung prison

Seven Mangaung prison officials suspended after murder of inmate [VIDEO]

Mkhwanazi given deadline to submit a sworn affidavit to Ipid over allegations

Ipid probes KZN top cop Mkhwanazi for allegedly abusing his power

Confirmed: How many inmates were granted parole – and how many were sent back to prison

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True or false? Correctional Services responds to ‘Professor Break-in’ Pollsmoor story

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‘A gun will be smuggled and someone will die’: MPs raise alarm over contraband flooding SA prisons

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Pollsmoor prison breaker back behind bars and now he’s in even bigger trouble

Thabo Bester escape response plan ‘underwhelming’, portfolio committee declares

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Prison break at Pollsmoor as parliament discusses Thabo Bester

More than two prisoners for every square metre of SA’s cells

Crime

Nearly 15k foreigners in SA’s overcrowded prisons

Celebs And Viral

Oscar Pistorius finds love after release from jail for murder of Reeva Steenkamp – reports

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R36 billion needed to build new prisons to deal with overcrowding – Groenewald

SACP expresses disappointment over Janusz Waluś’ deportation

Crime

Gauteng crime stats: 7 202 of 22 243 arrests involve undocumented foreigners

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WATCH: Officials raid Thabo Bester’s former ‘home’ Mangaung Prison

Crime

Law enforcement officials also victims of GBV

Crime

Correctional Services heightens prison security over festive season [VIDEO]