Best Correctional Facilities In South Africa

What is Correctional Facilities?

A prison, also known as a jail, jail, penitentiary, detention center, correction center, correctional facility, lock-up, hoosegow, or remand center,

is a facility in which inmates are confined against their will and usually denied a variety of freedoms under the authority of the state as punishment for various crimes.

Best Correctional Facilities In South Africa

Boksburg Prison in Boksburg, South Africa.

Brandvlei Correctional Centre in Worcester, Western Cape.

Drakenstein Correctional Centre, formerly Victor Verster Prison, near Paarl, Western Cape.

Grootvlei Prison near Bloemfontein, Free State.

How many correctional Centres are there in South Africa?

72 prisons for both male and female offenders.

Which are the biggest prisons in South Africa?

Pollsmoor Prison, officially known as Pollsmoor Maximum Security Prison, is located in the Cape Town suburb of Tokai in South Africa.

How many private prisons are in South Africa?

The prison system also includes two privately-run prisons: the Kutama Sinthumule Correctional Centre is run by the American private corrections company GEO Group,

and the Mangaung Correctional Centre is run by the British security company G4S.

Who is the oldest prisoner in South Africa?

Japhta K. Masemola
Japhta Masemola’s prison cell
BornJafta Kgalabi Masemola
12 December 1929
Pretoria, Union of South Africa
Died17 April 1990 (aged 60)
Johannesburg, South Africa
NationalitySouth African
CitizenshipSouth Africa
Occupation(s)Teacher and politician
Political partyPan Africanist Congress (PAC)