MEDIA RELEASE 21 JUNE 2019 – INFO-GRAPHIC
This report focuses on unnatural deaths that have been themed Inmate On Inmate (IOI) or Official On Inmate (OOI) either by way of assault with knives or with fists, etc. Incidents where officials are involved, it is usually with weapons such as a tonfa issued to officials for their protection. The report looks at 28 deaths (OOI=4: IOI=24) reported during the period mentioned above that were regarded as homicides. The deaths took place in all the DCS regions with LMN (25%) having the highest number of deaths and Western Cape (11%) the least number of deaths.
