Since being released from prison two months ago, life has become so hard on the outside for an ex-convict that he wants authorities to send him back to jail.
Lwazi Nontyi, 39, told the Daily Sun on Monday that he would be a happy man if he could just go back to jail to finish his term.
“When I was released, I thought I would be happy, but my life is a mess,” he told the paper.
“I was never hungry because we had food every day. When I get sick I can’t go to the clinic because they want money. All these things are free in prison.”
“If officials won’t take me back to jail I will commit a crime and then they will have to take me back.”
Advocate Mthunzi Mhaga of the Justice Department said: “He must focus on building his life outside prison and not think of going back to jail. The department cannot send people to prison if they have not committed a crime.”
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