#FirstThingsFirst: Do you care that SA prisons are 58% overcrowded & how do we fix this?

The Siz The World team weighed in on what to make of news that South African prisons are severely overcrowded, with the national inmate population at 168 672 against an approved accommodation capacity of only 107 067, resulting in a national overcrowding rate of 58%, as Parliamentary data reveal a system in collapse, with the Eastern Cape, Western Cape, and Gauteng among the hardest hit.