What is Prison?
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 convicted criminals are confined involuntarily and denied a variety of freedoms under the authority of the state as punishment for various crimes.
How Many Female Prisons In South Africa
According to AfriCheck, there are 243 prisons across South Africa, but only 9 are exclusively for women.
How many female prisoners are there in South Africa?
In South Africa, the latest Department of Correctional Services (DCS) data shows that in the 2021/22 financial year, the general prison population was 143 223, with a bed space of 108 804.
Of these, 3,724 are incarcerated women, most of whom are sentenced for economic-related crimes.
What crime can send a female to prisoners in South Africa?
Fraud and shoplifting were the two most common offenses for which women in this study were sentenced and the majority of them had relatively short sentences.
What happens when a woman is pregnant in jail South Africa?
Under South African law, children can stay with their mothers in prison until age two. Women who are pregnant when they enter
Pollsmoor live in a separate unit until they give birth, at which point they move to the Baby Mother Unit (BMU) with their newborns.