A two-pronged probe into allegations of torture at Mangaung prison will be completed in the next two weeks, MPs have been told.
Electric shock therapy and torture are some of the allegations uncovered by the Wits Justice Project at the Mangaung Correctional Facility.
Rape has become an accepted form of punishment for those in prison. Civil society groups say correctional services is doing nothing to change that.
Unlike Oscar Pistorius, who awaits trial in luxury, paraplegic Ronnie Fakude had to share a cell with 87 men.
Activists and former inmates say conditions in Zimbabwe jails are shocking, and basic conditions such as providing hygiene and food aren’t being met.
Journalists carrying out their professional duty should be protected from interference and possible harm, said Sanef.
The health department could face litigation for not taking adequate interim measures to care for psychiatric patients.
The Constitutional Court has ruled in favour of a former awaiting trial detainee who contracted TB while in Pollsmoor prison.
Amnesty International says it’s found hundreds of cases of unlawful arrest and detention in Mozambique.
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/ 18 December 2009
Researchers and advocates have singled out South Africa’s under-staffed and overcrowded prisons as hotbeds for the transmission of HIV and TB.
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/ 18 November 2009
Doctors, nurses and pharmacists are refusing to work in South Africa’s prisons, Parliament heard on Wednesday.
SA wants to build seven more new prisons to help ease chronic overcrowding in its jails, the correctional services minister said on Thursday.
Zimbabwe’s prisons will get a much-needed injection of help from the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Key questions ignited by Schabir Shaik’s medical parole are still unanswered.
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/ 2 December 2008
Fancy sports shoes were declared off limits at New York prisons from Monday as authorities sought to reduce friction between inmates.
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/ 20 October 2008
At least 17 prisoners died in a jail riot in Mexico near the United States border on Monday, some in a fire after a gun battle between rival gangs.
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/ 19 September 2008
Allowing Rastafarian warders to wear dreadlocks would ”open the floodgates” of indiscipline, says the area manager of Pollsmoor Prison.
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/ 12 September 2008
The British government expressed outrage on Friday at a horror-themed party staged by ”lifers” in a notorious women’s prison.
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/ 9 September 2008
<i>M&G</i> reporter Monako Dibetle and photographer Oupa Nkosi witness howa simple stress management programme is helping to rehabilitate prisoners.
A report on the state of South Africa’s prisons by the Auditor General reveals a serious lapse in maintenance standards.
Large numbers of awaiting-trial prisoners appear to be the reason for South Africa’s grossly overcrowded prisons, some by more than 300% of capacity.
According to experts and ex-prisoners, young, good-looking men, homosexuals and white-collar convicts are most vulnerable to prison rapes.
“All the people inside wanted to eat him like they did. I don’t know how many men [raped him], but it was messy.” A formidable, broad woman, Ma Khambule* allows her eyes to water just a little as she recounts the pain of discovering that her 15-year-old son, Siya*, was allegedly raped “many, many times” […]
Correctional Services Minister Ngconde Balfour questioned escapee Annanias Mathe at the Pretoria prison on Saturday to learn more about the circumstances of Mathe’s latest attempt to escape.
Annanias Mathe, one the country’s most notorious criminals, has tried to escape from prison again.
With a plasma TV, a DVD player, 000 in cash, gym equipment, two refrigerators and a couple of guns, Genilson Lino da Silva had everything he needed for a luxurious life — in his Brazilian prison cell.
Striking prisons men threaten to reveal truth about jail conditions.