The racial composition can be illustrated as follows: Un-sentenced Prisoners Sentenced Prisoners All sentenced groups Races Gender Asian Female Male All Genders Female Male All Genders Female Male All Genders Female Male All Genders 10 143 153 976 44,869 45,845 187 6,979 7,166 67 647 716 34 626 660 2,098 100,605 102,703 676 26,920 27,596 290 2,774 3,064 44 769 813 3,074 145,474 148,548 863 33,899 34,762 359 3,421 3,780 All Genders 53,880 134,023 187,903 Black Coloured White All races Source: Office of the Inspecting Judge (June 2004) The prisons are managed by a personnel force of about 35,000 giving a prisoner/staff ratio of about 6:1. The budget allocation for the 2004/2005 Financial Year stands at about R8 Billion (about 1.4 billion US Dollars). The government spends about R114 (about US $ 19) per prisoner per day, that is, R41,610 ( about US $ 7,000) per prisoner per year. Thus, for the 187,903 prisoners, the Government will spend about R7,818,643,830 per year for keeping them in prison. It means each South African pays approximately R178 (or US $ 30) a year for the upkeep of the prisoners. D. Description of detention facilities visited This section of the report gives a brief description of the detention facilities visited by the Special Rapporteur. The Special Rapporteur visited detention facilities in five out of the nine provinces and inspected a Mental Health Hospital, a Repatriation Center, 5 Juvenile/Youth Centres, 4 Police Stations and 9 Correctional Centers (prisons) including one Female Correctional Centre. They are listed below and described in the order in which they were visited. The facilities include: a. b. c. d. e. • • • • • • The Drakenstein Management Area (Western Cape); the Drakenstein Maximum Correctional Centre, the Drakenstein Medium B The St Alban’s Prison (Eastern Cape) St Alban’s Medium B Correctional Prison The Durban Management Area (Kwa Zulu Natal) Durban Female Correctional Centre Durban Juvenile Centre Durban Medium C Correctional Centre The Stanger Prison (Kwa Zulu Natal) The Manguang Prison (Free State) 15 Special Rapporteur on Prisons Mission to South Africa 14 – 30 June 2004

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