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Correctional officers arrested for assisting 16 escapees, JHB

Die Vryburger

Two Correctional Services officers were arrested for allegedly helping 16 prisoners to escape from the ‘Sun City’ jail in Johannesburg.

Two of the sixteen were shot dead in a follow-up operation by the Hawks.

In 2015/16 34 officers were found guilty of corrupt actions and in 2016/17 another 37.

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