Civil Society Prison Reform: Recent submissions

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    • NPA Accountability, trust and public interest 

      Africa Criminal Justice Reform, Lukas (Dullah Omar Institute, 2019)
      This discussion document deals with three key concepts associated with the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) and its relation to the public, namely accountability, public interest and trust. It is presented that for the ...

    • Corruption in the prison context 

      Lukas, Muntingh (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 ...

    • Policy and practice in South African prisons: an update 

      Julia, Sloth-Nielsen (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 ...

    • Prisons in South Africa's constitutional democracy 

      Lukas, Muntingh (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 ...

    • The right of prisoners to vote in Africa: An update 

      Muntingh, Lukas (Africa Criminal Justice Reform, 2019)
      Broadly speaking, universal suffrage refers to the rights conferred on adult citizens of a country to vote, however, there are always restrictions to a greater or lesser degree on who can vote in every democratic political ...

    • Failing to discipline in SAPS - Fostering a culture of impunity 

      Africa Criminal Justice Reform (Dullah Omar Institute, 2019)
      It is with unfortunate regularity that we read reports in the media about corrupt South African Police Service (SAPS) officials and officials implicated in other crimes, including human rights violations. Indicative of ...

    • Surveying the prisons landscape - what the numbers tell us 

      Lukas, Muntingh (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, ...

    • Arrested in Africa: An Exploration of the Issues 

      Muntingh, Lukas (Dullah Omar Institute, 2015)
      Recent research and advocacy efforts have drawn attention to the excessive use of and prolonged pre-trial detention in Africa. At any given moment there are roughly 1 million people in Africa’s prisons. Far more move ...

    • Ten years after the Jali Commission: assessing the state of South Africa's prisons 

      Lukas, Muntingh (South African Crime Quaterly, 2016-12)
      Ten years have lapsed since the Jali Commission’s final report became publicly available, and it is therefore an opportune time to assess the state of South Africa’s prison system. The Jali Commission was appointed when ...

    • Modest beginnings, high hopes: The Western Cape Police Ombudsman 

      Muntingh, Lukas (South African Crime Quarterly, 2018)
      In 2013 the Western Cape legislature passed the Western Cape Community Safety Act (WCCSA) to improve monitoring of and oversight over the police. One creation of the WCCSA is the Western Cape Police Ombudsman, which became ...

    • Prisoners' rights litigation in South Africa since 1994: a critical evaluation 

      Pierre, De Vos (Law, Democracy & Development, 2005)
      It is a sad fact that there is often a huge gap in South Africa between the constitutional promise of a life lived with dignity and respect, on the one hand, and the actual lived reality of people who are supposed to be ...

    • Challenges to effective prison governance in South Africa 

      Chris, Tapscott (Law, Democracy & Development, 2006)
      In an attempt to broaden the debate on prison reform in South Africa, this article reports on the findings of the investigation into the status of governance in selected prisons around the country. The study. which set out ...

    • Offender rehabilitation and reintegration: taking the White Paper on Corrections forward 

      Lukas, Muntingh (Civil Society Prison Reform Initiative, 2005)
      Rehabilitation and reintegration, as contemplated on the scale articulated in the White Paper, will indeed require a very careful approach and consideration would have to be given to the major challenges, such as resource ...

    • South African prisoner's right to vote 

      Pierre, De Vos (Civil Society Prison Reform Initiative, 2004)
      The South African Constitution states that every adult citizen has the right to vote. There has therefore been some legal controversy around the questions of whether it would be unconstitutional to limit the right of any ...

    • Parallel Policies: Policies relevant to child safety 

      Redpath, Jean (Centre for Justice and Crime Prevention, 2007)
      The Centre for Justice and Crime Prevention’s 2005 National Youth Victimisation Study indicated the need to explore existing policy impacting on children from a social crime prevention perspective within a rights-based ...

    • The death penalty in the Cape Provincial Division: 1986-1988 

      Julia, Sloth-Nielsen; Christina, Murray (South African Journal on Human Rights, 1989)
      This article presents the data that we collected in four tables. These are explained in the first section below. The second part of the article examines three issues that emerge from the data. First, we note the disparity ...

    • Community safety, offender re-entry and local government 

      Muntingh, Lukas; Naude, Johan (Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape, 2012)
      This paper examines the issue of “Community safety, offender re-entry and local government” in South Africa. The impact of the release of large numbers of prisoners back into society on a monthly basis poses particular ...

    • The Juvenile Justice Law Reform Process in South Africa: Can children's rights approach carry the day? 

      Julia, Sloth-Nielsen (Quarterly Law Review, 1999)
      The impetus for juvenile justice law reform sprang originally from concern for the plight of child detainees in the dark days of apartheid in the 1980s. Children, who were at the forefront of the struggle for democratic ...

    • Failing to prosecute? Assessing the State of the National Prosecuting Authority of South Africa 

      Redpath, J (Institute for Security Studies, 2012)
      The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) is pivotal not only in the criminal justice system, but also in the proper functioning of South Africa’s democracy. This monograph focuses on the independence, accountability and ...

    • The numbering of days: Sentencing and prison population growth 

      Muntingh, Lukas; Giffard, Chris (Institute for Security Studies (ISS), 2007)
      On 30 May 2007 the Criminal Law Amendment Bill (15 of 2007) was tabled in Parliament, proposing amendments to what has become known as the 'minimum sentences' legislation. The proposed amendments herald another chapter in ...