Six weeks after the Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services (JICS) warned that suicides were on the increase among mentally ill prisoners, two more unnatural deaths were reported.
This emerged at a JICS seminar in the Eastern Cape last week.
And Inspecting judge, Justice Johann van der Westhuizen, has warned: “If we cannot find solutions to this problem we may be staring at a possible Life Esidimeni incident.”
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