70% of prisoners are ‘young people’: Minister Masutha

26 June 2016 - 15:27
By Matthew Savides

Nearly seven out of 10 prisoners in South Africa are under the age of 35‚ Justice Minister Michael Masutha revealed this weekend.Speaking at a Correctional Youth Imbizo in Cape Town on Saturday afternoon‚ Masutha said urgent interventions were needed to fix the social ills and inequalities that often force the country’s youth into lives of crime.

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