Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services to launch bail fund pilot assisting indigent detainees [SOUND]

# The Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services, supported by the Bertha Centre, will launch a bail fund pilot to assist detainees unable to afford bail. Over two-thousand-600 awaiting-trial prisoners remain behind bars due to bail under one-thousand-rand. Judge Edwin Cameron told Newzroom Afrika that the fund aims to address poverty-driven detention and overcrowding. He emphasised the initiative independence, focusing on low-risk offenders with minor offences: