In one extract of the thriller novel it reads, “Prison sections i.e. maxim or medium Inmates, crammed into the choking darkness, spend all but an hour outside their cages, and even that precious ...

Before we even see the cell, we can smell it. It’s the suffocating stench of 86 men squeezed into a room built for 19. A warden shoves a key into a rusted iron grate. “Get back,” he shouts ...

A raid at Pollsmoor Prison has exposed alarming levels of contraband, including cellphones, drugs, and evidence of gang communication.

Pollsmoor is the only prison in South Africa that has a facility of this kind. It also allows mothers and nannies to walk their babies inside the gates of the unit.

Because of its central location in Tokai, Pollsmoor prison serves as the main gateway for suspects entering the prison system in the Western Cape. It is fed by 26 courts and 56 police stations. All of ...

Drugs, sharp objects and cash are among the items discovered during a successful multidisciplinary search operation conducted ...

Some of South Africa’s most dangerous criminals are held in Pollsmoor Prison, including the numbers gangs: 26s, 27s and 28s. With more than 4,000 inmates, Pollsmoor Prison’s awaiting trial ...

Cape Town - Numbers gangs in Pollsmoor Prison have caused havoc this week as members from the 26s and 28s battle. On Monday night, inmates being held in the Medium B section of the jail set alight ...

Since stepping down as president in 1999, Mr Mandela has become South Africa's highest-profile ambassador, campaigning against HIV/Aids and helping to secure his country's right to host the 2010 ...

Press Release - The IFP calls on the Department of Correctional Services to implement more stringent measures in the fight against smuggling of dangerous weapons, drugs and cell phones into prisons.

Nelson Mandela said the prison had a “modern face, but a primitive heart.” Mandela and top-tier political prisoners were housed together in a single cell and weren’t allowed to mix with the ...