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Original Post Date: 2002-03-31 Time: 20:21:26 Posted By: Jan
Note: In the story below how much money is spent on giving criminals (many of whom are violent), a nice life. Compare that with what the aged or disabled get. Jan
Source: The Star Newspaper, 30 March 2002.
TAXPAYERS FORK OUT FOR LUXURY JAILS
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BY WILLEM STEENKAMP AND MELANIE PETERS
South African taxpayers are paying more than Rl-million ($1=R11.50) a day to keep 6 000 criminals behind bars in two state-of-the-art private prisons – about twice as much as they pay to detain people in State jails.
The jails are run by a huge global security empire which operates pri-
vate prisons on behalf of governments in 80 countries.
The multi-national security consortium Group 4 Faick which has
merged with Wackenhut, the second largest prison management corn-.
pany in the United States, won a lucrative contract from the South
African government to build and manage two 3 000 bed maximum security prisons, in Bloemfontein and Louis Trichardt.
The Kutama Sinthumule prison in Louis Trichardt opened last month and the Mangaung prison in Bloemfontein in July last year. These are the first two private jails in South Africa and, depending on their success, more may follow.
And while most people believe crime does not pay, in the case of
Group 4 Faick and Wackenhut, accommodating criminals is a highly
lucrative business.
While neither Correctional Services or the Group 4 Falck-Wackenhut consortium was prepared to divulge the cost to taxpayers of keeping prisoners behind bars in the two private prisons, Saturday Star
has learnt reliably that the security company is paid R200 a prisoner a
day at Mangaung prison, a 2 928-bed facility, and R167 a day at Kutama
Sinthumule (capacity 3 024 inmates).
In short this means it costs tax-payers R6 000 a month to keep one
prisoner at the Mangaung and R5 010 a month at Kutama Sinthumule. The
cost of keeping a criminal behind bars in a state prison is R94 a day or
R2 700 a month.
To put this into perspective, social pensioners receive only about
R20 a day from the government.
Piet Jordaan, director of operations at Kutama Sinthumule, said not
only did these private prisons providemaximum security, they ensured humane detention for prisoners.
Fact File
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SA taxpayers pay up to R200 a day to keep a prisoner behind bars in one of
the country’s two new private jails. Saturday Star took a look at how this
compared to government grants and what one could buy for R200 a day.
(149) Old age and disability pensioners get about R20 a day (about R620 a month).
(149) Disabled people and war veterans get about the same.
(149) The government pays R4 a day towards child support to help people
raise children in very poor households.
(149) First time low-cost homebuyers are subsidised R18 000 a house.