MPs find massive overcrowding during Pollsmoor prison visit:
Female prisoners and remand inmates are enduring massive overcrowding at Cape Town's Pollsmoor ...
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Key FactsGroenewald suggests revisiting corporal punishment in prisons
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- On 1 July, Minister Pieter Groenewald proposed a National Assembly debate on bringing corporal punishment back.
- More than 60,000 accused people await trial; over 2,000 of them cannot afford bail below R1,000.
- For people serving life sentences, completed rehabilitation courses do not guarantee parole; he will deny it when reoffending risk is medium to high.
- The minister is exploring ways for foreign nationals to serve sentences in their countries of origin and be deported immediately afterward.
We must start a debate to say: shouldn’t we bring back corporal punishment?— Pieter Groenewald, Minister of Correctional Services, delivering his budget vote in the National Assembly
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