Focus on rehabilitating female offenders - Inmate Idah Lebaka shares more

For many people, Correctional Services is about confinement and punishment, although the Bill of Rights guarantees correctional centres offenders basic human dignity, including adequate accommodation, nutrition, reading material and medical care.

With a national female inmate population of 6 196, the Johannesburg Female Correctional Centre accounts for 1 703 women.

As we mark Women's Month, many female offenders are classified as vulnerable and facing fears of being successfully reintegrated back to their community.

To find out more, we are joined by Idah Lebaka, a female offender sentenced for murder and aggregated robbery serving 22 years.

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