The most secure prisons in South Africa

There is only one prison in the country where security is tighter than at C-Max.  That is in Kokstad, but the extreme severity of conditions there mean that there is very little interaction of any kind between prisoners. Battles for dominance simply don’t exist because the prisoners see so little of each other. You aren’t going to fight for the top spot if conditions are such that there can be no top spot. One expert visitor from the US said that exercise in C-Max was just a gesture towards keeping the prisoners on the right side of sanity.