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Video footage of an "errant" correctional services officer is circulating on social media after he allegedly tried to smuggle contraband, strapped around his waist, into the Tswelopele Correctional Centre in Kimberley.The incident took place on 9 September 2020, Department of Correctional Services (DCS) spokesperson Singabakho Nxumalo said."It was an internal operation following a tip-off and…

Scott G Winterton, KSL By Daedan Olander, KSL | Updated - Sep. 23, 2020 at 9:35 p.m. | Posted - Sep. 23, 2020 at 8:32 p.m. DRAPER — The Utah State Prison in Draper and Central Utah Correctional Facility are in a 24-hour lockdown after a suspected transmission of COVID-19 among the general inmate population.The…

A Mpumalanga man has been sentenced to life for killing his wife. A 38-year-old man has been sentenced in the Mpumalanga High Court to life in prison for murdering his wife. The court also sentenced him to an additional 10 years behind bars for assaulting his five-year-old daughter with a panga and burning her on a…

Makeda Atkinson, 46, was sentenced Tuesday to serve 15½ years in federal prison, according to online court records. Donald Adams, 63, had previously been sentenced in January to serve 10½ years.The two men, both from the port city of Brunswick, had pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess a controlled substance with intent to distribute, prosecutors…

A man will spend the rest of his life in jail for killing a 12-year-old boy. A man was sentenced to life in prison for killing a 12-year-old boy during a drug purchase in 2018. Jerome Cupido shot the boy and two other men at a house in Athlone when Cupido and a friend went there…