Correctional Services Department to investigate prison riots
Athenkosi
Mvane
29 January 2013
The
Department of Correctional Services has strongly condemned recent riots in
prisons.
Earlier
this month, prisoners at the Groenpunt Correctional Centre at Deneysville in
the Free State
Last
week, at least 20 inmates at Pollsmoor Prison in Cape
Town
The
Democratic Alliance Shadow Minister of Correctional Services James Selfe said
the Correctional Services Department needs to conduct a thorough investigation
about this.
Selfe said
the department had to stabilize the situation and reintroduce discipline; it
also needs to investigate the root causes of the violence.
“For
this reason, we are calling for appointment of an independent inquiry; it is
insufficient in our view that the department investigates itself because in
that way, it is not going to get to the root of the problem” self added.
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