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All prisoners must be screened and quarantined for 14 days before being detained with others, says justice and correctional services minister Ronald Lamola.Image: Gallo Images / Daily Sun / Lucky Morajane
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New rules for prisoners as Covid-19 cases climb behind bars

All inmates who enter a correctional facility must be screened and quarantined for 14 days before being housed with other prisoners. This is according to directives published by justice and correctional services minister Ronald Lamola on…

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26/09/2017. Parolees Mpho Dikgane, Thabo Mokoala, Richmond Tau and Kabelo Mhlongo sit outside a house that they help built after it was destroyed by fire. Picture: Masi Losi
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Ex-convicts cement skills in Soweto

BY NALEDI SHANGE A group of prisoners recently paroled from jails in Gauteng made use of the skills they got behind bars and rebuilt the house of a Soweto family that was gutted by a fire. The seven former offenders, who were jailed for…

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