“Prisons are the universities of crime and if you deal with the prison system and get it right and stop it from being a hub of criminal activity, it will serve in dealing with crime on the outside of jails.” In capturing the enormity of managing a prison system, Judge Jali declares, “prisons are the universities of crime.” A university is (according to the oxford dictionary of English) an educational institution designed for instruction, examination, or both, of students in many branches of advanced learning. Does definition of a university qualifies, in Jali’s context, South African prisons to be classified as such? in rhetoric manner the answer is a resounding yes. The design of a university for instruction in the many branches of advanced learning presupposes the existence and/or concentration of knowledge in such institutions. Knowledge like any other matter, has as a characteristic, an ability to move from a higher concentration to a lower concentration until a particular state...
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