Violence, Covid-19 take toll on inmates
THE Covid-19 pandemic is having a severe impact on prisoners throughout the country, but far worse are the harrowing accounts of violence against inmates by warders who are meant to be taking care of them.
Latest statistics from the Department of Correctional Services show that 158 officials and 62 inmates have died of Covid-19-related illness. In addition to the pandemic, inmates through their families have reached out to the Wits Justice Project with allegations of abuse at the hands of officials.
According to relatives of inmates at the maximum-security Leeuwkop Prison in Johannesburg,
