South Africa

The atlas lists 233 prisons, jails and detention centres in South Africa, including 219 prisons and 8 young offender institutions.

639 police units are listed for South Africa: 635 police stations and 4 border police units.

Public inmate lists are generally not published in South Africa. Contact the facility or the Department of Correctional Services, using the address and telephone on each facility page.

Western Cape, with 39 prisons and jails and 121 police units.

Yes for 156 entries of 233. Where a number is missing, the facility page shows its address and map location; details can change, so the agency's own website is the authority.

The Department of Correctional Services is responsible for them. The regions below list every establishment it runs, along with the police units in each area.

The atlas lists 6 women's prisons and 8 young offender institutions here. Each has its own page with the address and, where published, a phone number.

Westville has the most, with 5 places of detention in the atlas, out of 156 towns with at least one.

The atlas files South Africa by province, following official administrative boundaries; 9 provinces currently have entries. Every facility is listed in the province where it is located; Western Cape is the largest by number of entries.