Parliamentary Committee is concerned about prison overcrowding and foreign detainees [SOUND]

# Parliament’s Select Committee on Security and Justice says overcrowding in correctional facilities and the continued high number of remand detainees remain significant concerns. South Africa’s correctional facilities face a severe chronic overcrowding crisis, operating at roughly 63-percent beyond their official design capacity. The facilities currently accommodate 30-thousand-289 foreign nationals. Committee chairperson Jane Seboletswe Mananiso says the Department of Correctional Services must pursue memoranda of understanding with neighbouring countries to facilitate the management and repatriation of foreign nationals: