The portfolio committee has demanded tougher action as thousands of illicit items flood prisons

A deputy commissioner will investigate claims that wealthy prisoners are buying themselves preferential treatment in jail

We are bound to run into trouble when the private sector is given free rein to determine who is deserving of being treated as human and who is not

The company says contractual restrictions limit its interaction with the public, stopping it from giving its side of the story to the legislature

The department will immediately take over the management of Mangaung Prison from multinational private security company G4S