South Africa: Minister of Correctional Services Announced That the Month of September Will Be Utilised to Commemorate the 100 Years of Existence of a National Prison/Correctional Services Department

press release

Minister of Correctional Services, the Honourable Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, today announced that the month of September will be utilised to commemorate the 100 years of existence of a national prison / correctional services department in the country.

The national department was established on 1 October 1911 when the Act on Prisons and Rehabilitation Centres, Act 13 of 1911 was adopted. In the minds of the people the thought of prison will always invoke negative thoughts and memories. On the one hand it is due to the perception that imprisonment is not nice by its nature, and certainly it cannot be good to lose one's liberty.

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