DA requests report into prison officials giving inmates weapons to be tabled before committee
23 June 2019
The DA welcomes the investigation into two videos which show inmates of the Durban Westville correctional facility openly doing drugs and being given weapons by officials. We trust that the implicated officials have been suspended pending the outcome of the investigation.
Once the report is finalised, it must be tabled before the Portfolio Committee on Correctional Services to be thoroughly interrogated.
However, it is likely that this is not an isolated incident.
Corruption should have no place in our society yet, it is rife within the entire prison system and the prevalence of gangsterism is well known. Gangsters are well organised and bribe officials which undermine good order within prisons.