Justice and correctional services minister Ronald Lamola. Picture: GALLO IMAGES / SOWETAN / MOHAU MOFOKENG
Lamola said at a media briefing ahead of his budget vote speech that the introduction a few years ago of minimum sentencing, which withdrew the discretion for sentencing for certain crimes from judges and magistrates, had contributed to the increase in the prison population and to the problem of overcrowding.
Lamola said that the total expenditure increases for correctional services averaged 6.7% annually, growing from R23.8bn in 2018/2019 to R25.4bn in 2019/2020, R27.2bn in 2020/2021 and R28.9bn in the 2021/2022 financial year. “There are many thousands of offenders serving sentences of less than two years. Such offenders receive absolutely no rehabilitation programmes. They simply sit while they are tutored by gangsters to be better criminals. It is also not clear whether a sentence of two years or less serves as any sort of deterrent at all. So, we must think out of the box. We must dare to do things differently,” Selfe said.
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