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Daily News reports that according to prisoner organisations, sexual relations between warders and prisoners happened all the time and the recent video made headlines only because it went viral.
The video is of a warder and prisoner having sex in a room in Ncome Correctional Centre in Vryheid, KwaZulu-Natal. On Wednesday, Golden Miles Bhudu of the SA Prisoners Organisation for Human Rights (SAPOHR) said they initially did not want to comment, but changed their minds because it was not the first time such an incident had happened. “It is headlines today and as old as the mountains the next day and nothing comes of it. The mandate of this prison was lost along the line many years ago. Tomorrow it will happen again,” said Bhudu. Derrick Mdluli of the Justice for Prisoners and Detainees Trust for Human Rights said the video showed how weak security was within correctional services, if a warder and a prisoner could have sex. He concurred that warder-prisoner sexual relations happened all the time, across SA. Meanwhile, Nthabeleng Molefe of the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) said they discouraged such relations between officials and prisoners as it could potentially compromise the safety of colleagues and prisoners. On Tuesday, a Correctional Services spokesperson said the department would take strong action against the warder and the prisoner.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Thobeka Ngema at Daily News
- Read too, Correctional Services left red-faced by sex video of KZN prison guard and inmate, at Independent Media
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