Judge rules that prisons inspectorate must be given independence

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Government must change the law within two years so that the inspectorate's funding is not controlled by the department of correctional services.

They said it was incorrect to suggest that JICS was dependent on the department for its funding because this was sourced from national treasury via the department’s finance officer and “the department may not tamper with or utilise these funds”.

Turning to the act, Judge Boqwana said it was clearly geared at changing the system of correctional services that existed prior to the new constitutional era. “The general language is more humane. It substitutes words like prison, imprisonment and prisoner with correctional centres, incarcerated and offender.

 

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