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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The health department could face litigation for not taking adequate interim measures to care for psychiatric patients.