Correctional Services Minister Dr Pieter Groenewald has revealed that there are only 167 343 total inmates currently behind ...

The Department of Correctional Services is facing mounting pressure over its handling of deaths in custody after briefing parliament on alarming statistics that show 422 deaths remain unconfirmed or ...

Correctional services national commissioner Makgothi Thobakgale is taking steps to plug security gaps at Pollsmoor prison in Cape Town after three inmates were erroneously released due to ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Five men deported by the United States to Eswatini in July have been held in a maximum-security prison in the African nation for seven weeks without charge or ...

Convicted underworld kingpin Radovan Krejčíř has once again thrust South Africa’s correctional system into the spotlight ...

Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi said it costs the government about R500 a day to feed and house an inmate, while citizens get R350 a month in grants. He told MPs the government's priorities are wrong and that ...