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Reducing prison violence: implications from the literature for South Africa
(Civil Society Prison Reform Initiative, 2009)
In the past 15 years the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) has faced numerous challenges whilst trying to re‐invent itself. This has not been an easy road and in many regards the route to penetrative transformation ...
Corruption in the prison context
(Civil Society Prison Reform Initiative, 2006)
The point of departure of this paper is that, in general, corruption is a human rights issue, which is accentuated in the prison context given the nature of imprisonment. Three factors create an intrinsic risk for corruption ...
Surveying the prisons landscape - what the numbers tell us
(Law, Democracy & Development, 2005)
This article will make observations and describe trends using available prison statistics in order to offer a quantitative perspective on the issues of democracy and human rights in South African prisons. In chis sense, ...
Prisons in South Africa's constitutional democracy
(Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, 2007-10)
In this article it will be argued that to make prisons compatible with a constitutional democracy, as understood in South Africa, four requirements need to be met. First, the prison system must have an underlying philosophical ...
A Review of the Judicial Inspectorate of Prisons of South
(Law, Democracy & Development, 2005)
Independent prison inspectorates and the oversight of prisons by laymen are designed to contribute to improving prison conditions and protecting the human rights of prisoners. The South African model, the Judicial Inspectorate ...
Policy and practice in South African prisons: an update
(Law, Democracy & Development, 2005)
In June 2003, the Civil Society Prison Reform Initiative (CSPRI) released a policy review concerning major developments in penal policy in South Africa since the advent of constitutionalism in 1994. This paper was widely ...
Prisoners’ right of access to antiretroviral treatment
(ESR Review : Economic and Social Rights in South Africa, 2006)
Prisoners are susceptible to a number of illness and diseases due, in part, to poor living conditions in prisons (e.g. overcrowding and poor nutrition), substance abuse and sexual violence (e.g. male rape). From a health ...
Ex-prisoners' views on imprisonment and re-entry
(Civil Society Prison Reform Initiative, 2009)
This research project gathered information from ex-prisoners about their experiences during and after imprisonment. Knowing what prison system users think and say about the system is important because they are ultimately ...