{"id":231279,"date":"2026-04-24T15:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesothos-prisons-in-bad-shape-despite-years-of-recommendations-report-says\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T15:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:46:09","slug":"lesothos-prisons-in-bad-shape-despite-years-of-recommendations-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesothos-prisons-in-bad-shape-despite-years-of-recommendations-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho&#8217;s Prisons in Bad Shape Despite Years of Recommendations, Report Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\"><em> Tuberculosis, scabies and pellagra are spreading in the country&#8217;s severely overcrowded prisons <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tuberculosis, scabies and pellagra are spreading in overcrowded Lesotho prisons.<\/li>\n<li>Almost none of 78 reform recommendations made in 2023 have been implemented.<\/li>\n<li>An ombudsman report warns that underfunding and neglect are driving a health and human rights crisis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Overcrowded prison cells in Lesotho are experiencing outbreaks of tuberculosis, scabies and pellagra, with conditions now critical, says&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604240241.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>Tuberculosis, scabies and pellagra are spreading in the country&#8217;s severely overcrowded prisons Tuberculosis, scabies and pellagra are spreading in overcrowded Lesotho prisons. Almost none of 78 reform recommendations made in 2023 have been implemented. An ombudsman report warns that underfunding and neglect are driving a health and human rights crisis. Overcrowded prison cells in Lesotho [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":231280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,8525,1407,9990,257,7398,8775,5144,14777,254,5114],"class_list":["post-231279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bad","tag-lesotho-news","tag-lesothos","tag-news","tag-prisons","tag-recommendations","tag-report","tag-shape","tag-south-africa-today","tag-years"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231279","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=231279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}