Imogen Vollenhoven
27January 2013
The
Portfolio Committee on Correctional Services has urged the Department of
Correctional Services to deal with fights that occur among inmates in
correctional centres around the country.
This follows
the injury of 10 inmates at the Pollsmoor Correctional Facility after a fight
broke out between two gang groups.
Mr Vincent Smith, Chairperson of the
Committee, said that the Committee will interrogate measures put in place by
the Department to fight gangsterism in the country’s prisons early in the 2013
Parliamentary Session.
Smith explains that as
the committee are concerned about the continues uprising and riots in the countries
prison facilities St Albans a few days ago, Pollsmor last week and Groen punt in
the beginning of January.
Smith says
the committee urges the department to come up with a comprehensive anti gang
strategy and the committee will in all likelihood ask the department to present
it them in the beginning of the first term of 2013.
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