Chairperson of the portfolio committee on correctional services, Anthea Ramolobeng. (File photo)
South African prisons had an overcrowding rate of 48% in the 2023/2024 financial year, housing 156 000 inmates but only having approved bed spaces for 105 474, correctional services portfolio committee chairperson Anthea Ramolobeng said on Tuesday.
She also expressed “shock” at the number of foreign nationals who were inmates in the country’s prisons, saying that by the end of March…
