Juba Central Prison Director said the prison faces deplorable conditions.
Major General Simon Wani Ramba said the prison is overcrowded and accommodate more than its capacity, Bakhita Radio reported.
He said the prison administration is planning to send prisoners with minor crimes to work in farms as one way of resolving accommodation problem.
Mr Ramba lamented that due to limited spaces, juveniles and mentally ill persons were all squeeze to one room.
He urged the national Health ministry to get some medications and a psychotic doctor to heal the mentally ill prisoners.