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Give the JICS more power to investigate prison deaths

(published in The Saturday Star, 26 January 2013). HAZEL MEDA  FOLLOWING THE recent deaths of inmates at Groenpunt prison in the Free State and St Alban’s prison in the Eastern Cape, civil society...

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Durban inmates drink & watch English football on contraband devices

The chairman of the parliamentary portfolio committee on correctional services, Vincent Smith, has said committee members receive late-night calls from Durban Westville inmates who boast of drinking...

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St Albans prison torture: A conspiracy of silence

“One thing is clear: the use of force behind bars is a highly contentious issue. In terms of the law, the only permissible force is minimum or necessary force used to stop, or prevent a dangerous...

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Dagbreek interviews Carolyn Raphaely on prison and torture

  Today WJP senior journalist, Carolyn Raphaely, was on Dagbreek (on the DSTV channel Kyknet) and spoke about prison conditions in South Africa. Prisons in South Africa are suffering from gross...

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