Solitary confinement is torture
GroundView | 19 September 2024
Report argues that solitary confinement is a form of torture
By Daniel Steyn
News | 18 September 2024
Judicial Inspectorate of prisons is still accountable to the very department over which it is meant to have oversight, says lawyer
News | 27 August 2024
But the right of prisoners to vote has at times been resisted by the government and the Independent Electoral Commission
By Daniel Steyn
News | 24 April 2024
Eight months since the highly publicised Parliamentary hearing, little action has been taken by Parliament or Correctional Services
By Daniel Steyn and Marecia Damons
Analysis | 11 December 2023
Correctional Services has 12 months to revise the current policy
News | 8 November 2023
Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services received 2,244 complaints from prisoners appealing their sentences. KZN accounted for nearly half of these.
News | 16 October 2023
Ntokozo Patrick Xulu spent 813 days behind bars
Law | 19 September 2023
Prisoners are held according to the law, writes the Department of Correctional Services spokesperson
Right to reply | 7 September 2023
“Under democracy, hundreds and even thousands of inmates have been subjected to these practices” says Judicial Inspectorate report
By Sonia A. Rao
News | 6 September 2023
Minister of Justice and Correctional Services is 100% liable to pay damages
Law | 31 August 2023
The high-security prison is in the spotlight again after the suicide of an inmate this week
By Daniel Steyn
Analysis | 24 August 2023
Dividends were supposed to address needs of local community
By Daniel Steyn
News | 23 August 2023
More than 24,000 prisoners are likely to be released of whom about 3,000 will be deported
By Ciaran Ryan
News | 17 August 2023
Torture and assault by prison wardens are among the allegations made by prisoners
News | 11 August 2023
Lack of maintenance and disintegrating infrastructure put prisoners and staff at risk
Opinion | 28 July 2023