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The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (POPCRU) has learned with shock the reported incident wherein a female correctional officer was found dead last night at the Leeuwkop Correctional Centre. It is suspected that the officer, whose lifeless body was found where she had been booked to work, at the Covid-19 Isolation ward, might have been strangled and raped. Within the same vicinity, a blood-stained towel was found, indicating that the perpetrator of such a vile crime had ample time to try clean up the evidence.

───   LUCKY NKUYANE 06:16 Tue, 20 Jul 2021 File image: eNCA The inter-provincial Department of Correctional Services in the Free State and Northern Cape is targeting to vaccinate at least 90% of its inmate population and 67% of officials. The departmental spokesperson, Josial Ramokoena, says the Covid-19 vaccination drive of inmates commenced on Monday, whilst the officials are set to receive their Johnson and Johnson dose on Wednesday.  Some inmates have already received their vaccines owing to their age, as stipulated by the Department of Health's guid...

───   KATLEHO MORAPELA 06:57 Mon, 19 Jul 2021 File image: eNCA The vaccination of Correctional Services officials and inmates is set to be escalated on Monday. This, as the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, Ronald Lamola, launches the Covid-19 vaccination programme for the department. Lamola, in a statement, confirms the vaccination of officials started last week, but that of inmates only starts this week.  He says this will take place at 90 approved vaccination sites in Correctional Centres across the country.  Whilst vaccinations against ...

Michael Olugbode in Abuja The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has advocated for the amendment of necessary legislation to provide for the treatment and rehabilitation of drug users, as well as the adoption of non-custodial measures for appropriate cases in order to avoid human rights violations. Executive Secretary of the Commission, Tony Ojukwu, who gave this position via zoom at a side event on ‘Strengthening the Role of the UN Human Rights System in Drug Policies: The Case of Arbitrary Detention’ at the 47th Session of the Human Rights Council, which took place on 2nd July, 202...

It stated that the violent activities are not supported by the people of the region. by SaharaReporters, New York Jun 09, 2021 A group of senior lawyers from the South-East under the auspices of Concerned Senior Advocates of Nigeria of South-East extraction has called on former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar (rtd), ex-President Goodluck Jonathan and other eminent Nigerian leaders to wade into the security challenges pervading the region. The Concerned South-East SANs (Senior Advocates of Nigeria) bemoaned incessant attacks by gunmen on public infrastructures and security agencies...