Our country has a recidivism rate of about 90% compared to 6% to 8% for China, an authoritarian regime where mass executions of re-offenders is common
Two other accused will return to court on 11 July for formal bail applications
We should question the issue of prison outsourcing when the motive is profit and not public safety
No Credit Suisse executives have faced criminal prosecution, despite the company admitting liability
How many law-abiding citizens reliant on state grants might be better off in prison rather than trying to feed and fend for themselves on less than $1.25 a day, or R624 a month? The income threshold for the means test for the social relief grant is R624, the food poverty line. “A food poverty line […]
They should be in hospitals but because of system failures they languish in jails. Mothers tell of their suffering
Peer support has been pivotal to inmates taking responsibility for their health
Across Africa, 12 countries were keeping at least 75 journalists behind bars as of 1 December ― not counting those who were detained and released
How Tim Jenkin, Stephen Lee and Alexandre Moumbaris escaped Pretoria Central with a handmade wooden key
The conviction sets a new low-point in the tumultuous political career of the right-winger who remains a dominant political figure in France, admired by fans for his tough talk on crime and immigration
The deputy chief justice says he has to act because Zuma’s defiance risks inciting lawlessness
The small fish get caught. Jails are used to control the poor and disorderly and deflect attention from the crimes of the rich and powerful.
If the rich and powerful are afforded amnesty, then so too must the poor who are often pushed into lives of crime
Former youth league leader Andile Lungisa cites ANC constitution, and argues assault is not corruption in a bid to keep his party membership
‘Port St Johns and Port Elizabeth funerals are the cause of rising numbers,’ says the department of health
Doccie Who Killed Malcolm X? has led to a belated reopening of his murder investigation
A trans woman held in a male prison says she is being harrassed by staff and authorities won’t take her case seriously
Poor Madagascans are left to rot in prison awaiting trial very often for crimes that they never committed
G4S has belatedly sought to prevent the release of medical records of inmates who say they were tortured
The Equality Court in Cape Town will soon hear a groundbreaking case on the rights of transgender prisoners
Past cases indicate that verbal crimen injuria is not that serious. But a landmark sentence in South Africa has changed that
South Africa’s jails have one of the lowest percentages of women prisoners in the world – but among the highest number of men
Glencoe wardens are fearing prisoner escapes after the department demanded that they return to duty despite the jail’s near-derelict state
Control over cocaine trafficking routes and markets in Brazil and to the world lies behind the mass killings.
Lawyers for inmates held at the notorious Mangaung prison are suing the state – as well as the British firm that runs the prison – for abuses.
Govt seems reluctant to agree to allow South Africans sentenced abroad to serve part of their sentences at home. Hazel Friedman reports on two cases.
Life imprisonment sentences cause social harm, are not reducing crime and cost the taxpayer.
A drive to a funeral gave insight into a plan to adopt young offenders and guide them back into society.
Oscar Pistorius has been sentenced to five years imprisonment for culpable homicide and three years suspended jail time for negligent firearm use.
In a test case for new torture laws, inmates who were serving time at a prison near PE have told a court of routine mistreatment by prison officials.
Prisoners are being deprived of treatment, and punished for speaking up about it.
But electronic tagging may ease the plight of inmates and lighten the burden on state coffers.