South Africa faces severe prison overcrowding with 170,000 inmates against a 107,000 bed capacity, prompting major contraband ...

Operational failures at Pollsmoor Remand Detention Facility led to prisoner escapes and violent incidents, revealing systemic ...

National Correctional Services commissioner highlights incidents that left inmates dead, officers stabbed, and an inmate mistakenly released.

The incidents, recorded last year, include an erroneous inmate release, inmate deaths, and violent attacks on correctional ...

Correctional Services portfolio committee members questioned whether enough was being to done to promote safety and mental ...

The department promised to take action against hundreds of its officials implicated in contraband smuggling. A total of 312 cases were administered, and 266 have been finalised. Some officials ...

The Portfolio Committee on Correctional Services in South Africa has called for urgent investigations into the rising number of unnatural deaths in correctional facilities, highlighting concerns over ...

Internationally notorious criminal Thabo Bester has been transferred to eBongweni Super Maximum Correctional Facility in Kokstad, KZN.

The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) has confirmed that its facilities nationwide have a capacity of more that ...

The Department of Correctional Services has recorded a 94.4% pass rate for the 2025 National Senior Certificate (NSC) exams.This was revealed by Minister Pieter Groenewald, who released the results at ...

eBongweni Super Maximum Prison in Kokstad, KwaZulu-Natal, is feared by even the most hardened of criminals.