Prison Rehabilitation in South Africa 'Not Working'
While rehabilitation and care programmes are failing, prisoners were also being abused and dehumanised, resulting in the entire country being unsafe, says parliament's portfolio committee on correctional services.
Photo: Glenna Gordon
Prisoner's hands on the bars in his cell (file photo): Inhumane conditions in South African prisons are making the department of correctional service vulnerable to legal action, MPs say.
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