2.2 The Committee in most, if not all, of its oversight reports, highlights the impact overcrowding has on, amongst others, service delivery to inmates and conditions of incarceration. We consistently recommend that interventions should be made to mitigate the effects of overcrowding. The first such recommendations were made as far back as 2005. Although there has been a reduction in the prison population since 2005, South Africa's incarceration rate remains among one of the ten highest in the world: 301 out of every 100 000 people in South Africa end up in incarceration