The Daily Telegraph

Strippers cavorted with jail inmates as guards looked on

- By Stuart Graham in Johannesbu­rg

SOUTH AFRICAN prison officials suspended 13 guards yesterday after women in black body suits were photograph­ed cavorting with inmates at a strip show in a Johannesbu­rg jail.

Images circulated on social media show staff watching as three strippers perform seductive dances and undress and embrace an inmate at the Johannesbu­rg Correction­al Centre.

The jail houses some of the country’s most dangerous convicts.

Prison officials said that those involved had been served with suspension notices.

James Smalberger, the prisons commission­er, said: “The form of entertainm­ent as depicted on social media was not approved.”

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