Athenkosi Mvane
Ten prisoners have been wounded, two of
them critically, at the Pollsmoor Prison in Cape
Town
This follows reports of violence in at
least three prisons in the country. The fighting at Pollsmoor follows riots
reported two weeks ago at Groenpunt Correctional facility in the Free
State St Albans in Port
Elizabeth
Western Cape Correctional Services
Department's Regional Commissioner, Delekile Klaas said that one of the injured
inmates is in ICU at Groote Schuur Hospital
“Seven of them have been discharged
from hospital; the situation has now been normalised” Klaas said.
Klaas said that the police had been
called and no further incidents are anticipated.
“All these acts were gang related,
the fight was initially amongst (members of the gang) 26’s, later the 28’s
fought the 26’s” Klaas added
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