The Department of Correctional Services is investigating the death of a Mangaung prison inmate following an alleged assault by prison guards.

The family of Thulani Rafisa, an inmate serving an 11-year sentence at the Mangaung G4S maximum prison, has made shocking allegations against prison officials, claiming that their son has been ...

On May 3 last year, Bester escaped from the Mangaung prison by faking his death and planting an unknown man’s body in Cell 35. Bester and Magudumana fled the country after news agency Groundup ...

The Mangaung Prison opened in 2001 as South Africas first privately run penitentiary Its operator the multibilliondollar British security firm G4S promised the most humane treatment and the best ...