Prisons
MPs call for action on prison overcrowding
Portfolio committee suggests alternatives to reduce remand detention
By Elna Schütz
Parliament | 7 July 2025
New book by Edwin Cameron gives practical steps to reform prisons
“The biggest public policy mistake of the last 125 years was the war on drugs”
By Elna Schütz
News | 8 June 2025
Hundreds of state mental health patients are being kept in prison
There are not enough beds in South Africa’s 13 psychiatric hospitals
By Elna Schütz
News | 1 June 2025
Presumed guilty! Years in prison awaiting trial
Goodwood prison massively overcrowded, judge’s report finds
News | 5 May 2025
Prisoners can use computers to study in their cells, says Constitutional Court
Current policy is unconstitutional, court rules
Law | 30 April 2025
Coming soon: fund to help people pay bail
Bail Fund will address the “injustice of being detained simply because of poverty”
By Liezl Human
News | 17 March 2025
Explainer: why South Africa’s prisons are overcrowded
Our prisons have about 105,000 beds but there are over 156,000 prisoners
By Daniel Steyn
Analysis | 4 December 2024
This man spent nine years in jail before the charges against him were withdrawn
Now the state is challenging the court ruling of wrongful arrest
Law | 26 November 2024
The rights of prisoners must be protected, even if we dislike them
Solitary confinement is torture
GroundView | 19 September 2024