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ANA reports that a Department of Correctional Services (DCS) official is nursing wounds after being stabbed twice by an inmate who was attempting to escape at the High Court in Johannesburg on Monday.
A DCS spokesperson indicated: “According to the preliminary investigation, the inmate used a sharp object stabbing the official twice before attempting to escape. He [the inmate] was caught in no time by the court security officials, with assistance from the general public who were within the court premises.” The injured prison official was taken to a hospital and has since been released after receiving medical attention. A formal investigation has been launched to establish the facts around the incident, and a criminal case would be lodged with the police. The offender is serving 2,827 days for not obeying parole conditions and is also facing two further charges for murder and robbery. Meantime, the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) blamed the department for failing to adequately protect DCS officials. Spokesperson Richard Mamabolo said the official was single-handedly escorting a sentenced inmate from the Johannesburg Correctional Centre’s B section‚ which houses maximum offenders. He said: "We want to categorically state that all correctional officials across the country should blatantly refuse to escort 'maximum' inmates to courts or hospitals if the ratio is not 2:1‚ meaning that there should at all times be two correctional officials escorting one inmate‚ excluding a driver.”
- Read this report in full at The Citizen
- Read too, Popcru blames DCS for prison warden's stabbing, at Timeslive
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