Parliament's Correctional Services committee found 525 juvenile offenders at the Emthonjeni Youth Correctional Centre in Baviaanspoort ... WATCH: Discussion | Prison overcrowding | Foreign ...

Chairperson of the portfolio committee on correctional services, Kgomotso Ramolobeng, has expressed concern over prison overcrowding ... ‘When we went to the Baviaanspoort juvenile centre, we found ...

Parliament's Correctional Services committee found 525 juvenile offenders at the Emthonjeni Youth Correctional Centre in Baviaanspoort and 400 of them were foreign nationals.

The state’s largest facility for youth offenders remains over capacity, with one legislator describing the situation at the ...

This secrecy fosters ignorance; when was the last time you thought about what life is like for people in the prison or jail nearest to where you live? Juvenile prisons are especially good at hidin ...

Ramolobeng said that in October last year, the committee undertook an oversight visit in Gauteng, where it found that at Emthonjeni Youth Correctional Centre in Baviaanspoort, of the 525 juvenile ...

A group of parishes along the Mississippi River is seeking more than $36 million in state funds to create a juvenile jail on ...

Juvenile correction staff allowed a teenager ... requirements for internal staffing and complying with the federal Prison Rape Elimination Act, according to the audit. State officials have ...

"When we went to Baviaanspoort, we had about 525 male offenders ... especially those in Gauteng, including juvenile facilities. "The inmate population of foreign nationals, it was a shock for ...

The federal Bureau of Justice Statistics estimates that about a fifth of the country's prison population spent time in foster care. Black youths are nearly five times as likely as white youths to be ...