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Pollsmoor Remand: “They treated us like animals”

Videos Staff Reporter - 10 May 2016

Former detainees tell of being denied chronic medication and contracting diseases like TB while incarcerated in the overcrowded Cape Town facility.

Pakistan grants paraplegic man stay of execution

Article Ben Quinn - 27 Nov 2015

Abdul Basit, whose legs were paralysed after he contracted meningitis in prison, has been granted a stay of execution.

Tortured Mangaung prisoners seek justice

Article Staff Reporter - 26 Nov 2015

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.

Pollsmoor prisoners treated ‘worse than animals’

Article Staff Reporter - 17 Sep 2015

Lice, grime, broken toilets and six-hour waits for visitors: life is tough in Cape Town's Pollsmoor prison.

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Still no progress on Mangaung prison abuse claims

Article Staff Reporter - 16 Oct 2014

The wheels of justice are turning slowly in the case of a Free State jail accused of torturing its inmates.

No escape for abused Mangaung prisoners

Article Staff Reporter - 17 Jul 2014

Everything is under control at the troubled prison, correctional services assured this week. But the inmates there tell a different, harrowing story.

Let us see our cruelty more clearly

Article Ian Cobain - 15 May 2014

British MPs and lawyers call for more rigorous probes into the abuse and deaths of detainees.

Presumed innocent, rotting in jail

Article Staff Reporter - 6 Mar 2014

Despite legal reforms, prisoners are spending many years behind bars before going on trial.

Mangaung defends antipsychotic injections for prisoners

Article Sapa - 6 Nov 2013

Antipsychotic injections are necessary to subdue inmates, says medical staff at the Mangaung Correctional Centre.

Probe into Mangaung prison torture nearly complete

Article Sapa - 5 Nov 2013

A two-pronged probe into allegations of torture at Mangaung prison will be completed in the next two weeks, MPs have been told.

Ndebele: Mangaung prison torture will be investigated

Article Sapa - 25 Oct 2013

Claims of torture in Mangaung prison will be investigated, says Correctional Services Minister Sibusiso Ndebele.

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Amnesty: Hundreds die in harsh Nigerian prisons

Africa Staff Reporter - 15 Oct 2013

Nearly 1 000 people, mostly suspected Islamist militants, have died in Nigerian prisons in 2013 alone, says Amnesty International.

Nursing Zim prisons back to health

Article Staff Reporter - 27 Sep 2013

One man's mission to bring sanitary sanity and dignity to those kept behind bars.

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Inmates sue minister for laptops

Article Staff Reporter - 27 Jul 2013

Prisoners take their fight for computers, internet access and CD players to court — all in the name of education.

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Paraplegic’s hellish ordeal in prison

Article Carolyn Raphaely - 8 Mar 2013

Unlike Oscar Pistorius, who awaits trial in luxury, paraplegic Ronnie Fakude had to share a cell with 87 men.

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