IOL: Crime & Courts: " Judge calls for mass release of prisoners
Christelle Terreblanche
July 11 2004 at 01:01PM
'A large-scale release of prisoners or amnesty is urgently needed to bring down crime.'
"If you want to reduce crime, you start off by reducing the number of prisoners," he said.
"First, you have to change the conditions in prisons. At the moment, they are universities of crime. We simply have to get down numbers drastically. We're out of step with the world," he said, explaining that we are among the top jailers internationally."
