HOWELL: Welcome back to CNN NEWSROOM. I'm George Howell. We turn now to South Africa. CNN was given exclusive access to one of the country's most notorious prisons, Pollsmoor Prison. It is the place where Nelson Mandela was held and it has been dogged by years of scandal and allegations of inhumane conditions. David McKenzie takes us inside.</s>DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Walls designed to keep dangerous inmates out of sight, also hiding allegations of abuse, disease, outbreaks, severe overcrowding -- until now. We've been given exclusive access inside Pollsmoor Prison. We're headed to the one section that's the oversight most overcrowded section of Pollsmoor,</s>CLIVE (PH): The worst thing is to see all the people must lay on the floors,</s>MCKENZIE (voice-over): Clive (ph) has been stuck here for two years and two months, awaiting trial.</s>CLIVE (PH): Animals should live like this but not human beings.</s>MCKENZIE: It seems very unfair to them.</s>JACOBS: I understand that but unfortunately we don't invite any of them in here. Correctional Services, we don't invite any of them in here. They come here because they do alleged crimes.</s>MCKENZIE (voice-over): He says Pollsmoor was designed during apartheid when prisons were meant to break black inmates, not rehabilitate them.</s>MCKENZIE: It's inhumane.</s>JACOBS: It's inhumane.</s>MCKENZIE (voice-over): Jacobs wanted to show us what wardens were up against. Today, like each morning, hundreds of remanded inmates head off to court. Some will be let off, some convicted. But the majority will just be brought back where hundreds more will join them each week inside this prison hell -- David McKenzie, CNN, Pollsmoor Prison.
Inside Notorious South African Prison