Nearly half of South Africa's correctional facilities lack adequate perimeter fencing, with R1bn needed to address ...

Five cash-in-transit robbers were sentenced to a combined 150 years in prison by the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg ...

Adding to the concern, Minister Groenewald revealed that the DCS estimates the cost of upgrading perimeter fencing at two prisons, one in the Eastern Cape and another in the Western Cape, at over R116 ...

At least 165 women were raped by male inmates during a mass breakout from a prison in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the United Nations.

Inmates at Westville Prison allege severe food shortages and poor quality, prompting calls for investigation into human ...

Seventeen Afghan citizens held in jails across North Africa have been brought home after Taliban officials struck deals with ...

Nelson Mandela walked out of prison as a free man after 27 years, marking a golden moment in history. On this day in 1979, ...

It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.” Nelson Mandela uttered ...

Kizza Besigye has been detained since November after being kidnapped in Nairobi and hauled before a military court in Kampala ...

Johannesburg - The legal team representing incarcerated filthy rich Zimbabwean businessman Frank Buyanga Sadiqi have raised ...

Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga and North West prisons hold the highest number of foreign national inmates in South Africa, with 14 920 foreigners behind bars across the country as of January 2025.

Nov 24, 2024. [Jonah Onyango, Standard] Kenya Prisons women's volleyball team is doing everything right to lift the 2025 African Women's Volleyball Club Championships set for April 1-14 in Abuja ...