# Parliament’s portfolio committee on Correctional Services says prisons should not be centres of further illegality. The committee conducted oversight visits to correctional facilities in the Eastern Cape and Western Cape last week. The Department of Correctional Services has been under growing pressure to clamp down on the circulation of banned items inside prison facilities, which has been linked to violence, extortion, and organised crime networks operating from behind bars. Committee chairperson, Kgomotso Ramolobeng, says correctional centres should be a place to empower and reskill offenders.
Parliament committee says prisons should not be centres of further illegality