Cape Town mayor says prisoners have no right to coordinate crime from behind bars [SOUND]

# Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis says that prisoners do not have the right to unfettered communication beyond prison walls, especially when they are coordinating crime from behind bars. This follows the South African Prisoner Organisation for Human Rights’ opposition to the metro’s calls for signal-blocking and communication interception strategies to be piloted at Pollsmoor prison. Hill-Lewis says underworld figures inside Pollsmoor are pulling strings on the outside, including extortion threats and disruptions of infrastructure projects: