LIFE BEHIND BARS IS ABOUT SURVIVAL OF THE SHARPEST
“THE magnitude of violence in the Mangaung Prison is unlike anything I’ve ever seen in my entire life,” said Mervin “Chunky” West, an inmate, describing the privately-run prison as a cesspool of gangsterism and bloodshed. West, who has been at Mangaung in Bloemfontein since 2012, said violence occurs almost daily; sometimes, especially with the Covid-induced lock-down, there were no security guards in
