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Correctional Services: Over 120 paroled inmates have reoffended The Correctional Services department said the inmates were rearrested for crimes including murder and rape Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services has heard that a total of 126 inmates who were paroled have had run-ins with the law since being released. Officials from the department appeared virtually before parliamentarians on Wednesday, 12 May 2021. The parolees were part of 13 989 other prisoners who were released in 2020, as a measure by government to counter the spread of COVID-19. The inmates...

Nearly 14,000 inmates released on special COVID-19 parole so far, MPs told The special parole was announced by Justice Minister Ronald Lamola in May last year, because the department was unable to enforce social distancing and other COVID-19 protocols in prisons due to overcrowding. FILE: Inmates at the Leeuwkop Correctional Facility. Picture: Thomas Holder/Eyewitness News 12 days ago CAPE TOWN - The Department of Correctional Services said that nearly 14,000 inmates had so far been released under the spec...