Posts tagged with 'Correctional Services'

 

“Reformed Criminal with Regret” Released After Serving Only Half his Sentence, Becomes Farm Murderer 10 Months Later!

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The RainBlood AbomiNation that is South Africa is a paradise for criminals: One of Pieter and Eddie Hills’s murderers was supposedly a “reformed parolee who regretted his actions“, according to Correctional Services, and was released on parole after serving just over half of his sentence of 25 years, for robbery with aggravated circumstances. Only 10 months later he became a farm murderer…

A social worker had handed in a report to a parole committee which stated that Moeketsi Maluka (34) was reformed and had regret for the criminal deed he had done after he was sent to jail in 2007. As a result he was released early in February of this year, and 10 months later, on 5 November, he was one of 4 farm attackers who shot Pieter dead and mortally wounded his son Eddie on the farm Zwartpan at Hennenman. Eddie died from his injuries the next week.

Patrick Bochedi (36), whose mother works on the farm, and Mojalefa Modis
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SA’s prisons could run out of beds as crime rate surges

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The growing crime rate and rise in life sentences meted out to offenders may mean that there won’t be enough beds for criminals in SA’s prisons.

The department of correctional services has conceded that it is worried about over-crowding which is on a steady rise, as evidenced by the latest shocking crime statistics.

The department is forced to be creative to deal with this dilemma and is looking at a host of measures to ease the “stubborn pressures of incarceration, forever increasing due to high crime levels”.

The department believes that the judiciary should consider other forms of punishment instead of sending all criminals to jail.

For example, less serious crimes should lead to a sentence of community correctional supervision, the department said.

It also wants a debate on whether incarceration is the most effective form of rehabilitation for some offenders.

Correctional services wants to review the cases o
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Correctional services: Thousands e-devices that cost taxpayers R1.8 billion rotting in storage

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The department of correctional services has allegedly spent nearly R2bn on a programme to fit prisoners who are out on parole with electronic monitoring devices, but these devices remain unused because they can apparently only be fixed in Israel.

In one of the department’s most ambitious projects yet, it had hoped to electronically tag 10,000 prisoners who had been released on parole to keep them from committing more crimes, writes Jacques Pauw in the latest edition of online Afrikaans weekly Vrye Weekblad.

For several years, correctional services reported that the programme was a great success and that it heralded a new era in the management of paroled prisoners. Several times it asked parliament for more funds for the programme.

At the state capture commission, the department has been unmasked as a cash cow for the services company Bosasa, which won fraudulent contracts worth billions of rand by bribing top officials and politicians.

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