JOHANNESBURG - Some prisons have more foreign prisoners than locals as cells burst at the seams. More than 22,000 foreign ...

At Emthonjeni Youth Correctional Centre in Baviaanspoort in October last year, of the 525 juvenile offenders, 400 were ...

All 68 inmates who escaped from a jail in South Africa's Western Cape on Friday have been rearrested, the government says. Prison officials were praised for "restoring stability" following a two ...

Chairperson Anthea Ramolobeng says in some facilities the number of foreigners outnumber South African inmates.

Until the reforms to the prison legislation passed in June 1993, the Commissioner of Correctional Services was empowered to remit any part of a prisoner's sentence, taking into account a ...