BY Obakeng Maje

Western Cape Social Development MEC Albert Fritz said on tuesday that Westertn Cape juvenile prisons centres need to be reduce as this does not help children. He said most children that comes out of the centres does not come out reformed in anyway.

He explain that those who are convicted for minor offences will have to be placed in other community centres.”I will now work towards having only one facility in the WC for children that have been sentenced” he said.

South African prisons experience a backlog recently because of overloaded prisoners and that really hit taxpayers hard in the pocket and derail some developments in the country because of the money used to maintain the prisoners.