Ruth Hopkins

$Thabo Bester escape a fraction of the rot at G4S-run private jail$

/ 1 April 2023

Thabo Bester escape a fraction of the rot at G4S-run private jail

However, abuse and torture at the prison have improved, the Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services says

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By Eunice Masson

Friday

/ 20 August 2020

Three new nonfiction book reviews

Shaun de Waal reviews three nonfiction books by Ruth Hopkins, Philippa Garson and Tom Eaton

By Shaun De Waal

Opinion

/ 14 August 2020

Merchants of despair

When imprisonment becomes a business, the profit motive rears its head at the expense of the good of the prisoners. Three recent books deal with the murky workings of the prison-industrial complex in South Africa

By Casper Lӧtter