DA raises alarm over the slow pace of processing remand detainees

Parliament’s select committee on security and justice conducted an oversight at Pollsmoor prison in Cape Town on Wednesday, stating appropriate measures to control contraband need to be enforced at all correctional centres.The committee said it received a comprehensive introduction to the work of the department of correctional services (DCS), its programmes, staffing, fraud, overcrowding and combating contraband.The committee’s visit comes after a video went viral on social media of a Zimbabwean inmate at Goodwood prison who had a cellphone and was enjoying the “soft life” behind…