Prison warders looking after inmates with mental disorders
Popcru fears for its members’ safety as officials confirm 93 state patients being kept in correctional facilities in Eastern Cape
Nearly 100 Eastern Cape inmates who have been declared state patients and are meant to be housed in state psychiatric institutions across the province are instead being held in prisons, with warders tending to them...
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