A third inmate who was among three other prisoners at the Pollsmoor Correctional Facility died in hospital from his wounds.

A lawyer representing a Cuban man deported by the United States to the African nation of Eswatini says he is on a hunger ...

South African opposition politician Julius Malema has been found guilty of illegal possession of a gun and firing it in public, offences which carry a minimum sentence of 15 years in prison.

Former Police Minister Bheki Cele told Parliament that South Africa’s biggest crimes were planned in prisons, urging that ...

Parole applications average over 20 000 per year, but of those granted freedom, roughly one in four return to prison.

Carte Blanche shines a spotlight on a remarkable artistic milestone inside South Africa’s prisons, where inmates are telling ...

A convicted woman claims she pleaded guilty by mistake to fraud allegedly committed at Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital ...

The Chairperson of the Correctional Services Committee expresses alarm over a disturbing rise in violent attacks on prison ...

A Pretoria High Court has ordered former South African President Jacob Zuma to repay about $1.6 million to the Office of the ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa— "September '77, Port Elizabeth weather fine. It was business as usual, in police room 619," go the opening lines of singer Peter Gabriel's famous anti-apartheid anthem from ...

DOUBLE murder accused Ruth Lawrence’s boyfriend is a convicted killer, a court heard today. Dubliner Lawrence, 46, who has an ...