With the privately-run Mangaung Correctional Centre in Bloemfontein recently coming under sharp focus for the elaborate escape of Facebook rapist Thabo Bester, Eyewitness News can reveal disturbing allegations surfacing from another privately-run facility in Limpopo - the American-operated Kutama-Sinthumule Correctional Centre.
Inmates allegedly set parts of the prison alight after certain demands to prison management were not addressed. Over 2,000 inmates from the Kutama Sinthumule Correctional Centre had to be transferred to safe zones following the blaze.
The department of correctional services has confirmed the death of an inmate at Kutama Sinthumule correctional centre in a fire at the facility on Monday.