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Again, reports of crooked prison wardens selling drugs in Drakenstein prisons have reared their head.
Nothing new, as over the years Paarl Post has regularly reported on such matters.
The country is riddled with crime, and it is evident that when criminals are eventually convicted and sent to prison, instead of rehabilitation, they continue to be ensconced in a life of criminality and disorder.
South Africa has the largest prison population on the African continent, with now close to 200 000 incarcerated people.
Sexual violence is rampant as well as large-scale abuse.
Organised crime, gang violence and corruption are the order of the day in most prisons.
Drugs, guns and sex are sold to inmates by warders, shocking evidence of the corruption in South Africa’s prisons.
Recently too Paarl Post reported on allegations of mismanagement, abuse of power, malfeasance and fruitless and wasteful expenditure against a local prison chief.
These cases are but just a drop in the ocean of corruption and inadequate management in SA prisons.
How under these circumstances can any prisoner be set free as a rehabilitated citizen?
