Money, sharp objects and cellphones were some of the illegal items found and confiscated during a raid at St Albans Correctional Center in Gqeberha in the Eastern Cape in the early hours of today.
The unannounced search operation was led by Correctional Services National Commissioner Makgothi Thobakgale.
Thobakgale says the raids are meant to mitigate criminal activities behind bars.
We are dealing with rings, crime rings here that we are dismantling. Thats why even when we got into the cells, I indicated that I am interested in a particular setting in terms of where they are housed. In most instances, those that are housed in corners are the ones that are controlling everything inside a cell. Thats why, the first cell that we got in we were able to recover R1900 from one of the offenders, if you check where he was housed, he is housed at the corner.
Raid at St Albans Correctional Centre in Gqeberha:
