3.4 3 August 2010 incident at the New Kimberley Correctional Centre 3.4.1 During its February 2010 visit to the New Kimberley Correctional Centre the Committee had raised concerns regarding the ability of new recruits to manage the inmate population likely to be incarcerated at the centre. It had then recommended that "measures should [however] be put in place to ensure that the largely new and inexperienced warders are equipped to manage an offender population that is likely to be very familiar with incarceration and may attempt to manipulate and take advantage of warders' lack of experience". Furthermore it was feared that warders' inexperience and insensitivity might make them prone to behaviour that may incite acts of violence among inmates. This recommendation went unheeded, and officials' inexperience may have contributed to the as the 3 August incident during which inmates took officials hostage and caused millions of Rands worth of damage to one of the Units at the centre.