{"id":214735,"date":"2025-11-24T21:28:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T19:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-to-release-hundreds-of-prisoners-to-reduce-overcrowding\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T21:28:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T19:28:54","slug":"lesotho-to-release-hundreds-of-prisoners-to-reduce-overcrowding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-to-release-hundreds-of-prisoners-to-reduce-overcrowding\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho to Release Hundreds of Prisoners to Reduce Overcrowding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\"><em> The government says it is busy implementing recommendations made 22 years ago by the Judge White Commission into prison conditions <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chronic overcrowding in Lesotho&#8217;s prisons of nearly 70% above capacity is creating inhumane conditions and a potentially dangerous situation.<\/li>\n<li>Pretrial detainees make up over 40% of this prison population, with many spending months or years behind bars before their cases are heard.<\/li>\n<li>The government is now using early releases and renovating prisons in an attempt to&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511240550.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government says it is busy implementing recommendations made 22 years ago by the Judge White Commission into prison conditions Chronic overcrowding in Lesotho&#8217;s prisons of nearly 70% above capacity is creating inhumane conditions and a potentially dangerous situation. Pretrial detainees make up over 40% of this prison population, with many spending months or years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":214736,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00350255:72c311a0221701815de227cd401f2b60:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,6529,4717,1407,257,34315,6444,8391,6011,254],"class_list":["post-214735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-hundreds","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-overcrowding","tag-prisoners","tag-reduce","tag-release","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00350255:72c311a0221701815de227cd401f2b60:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}