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Submission by CSPRI to the Portfolio Committee on Correctional Services regarding deaths in prisons and medical parole
The submission analyses statistics on deaths in custody and medical parole releases. An overview of legislative provisions is provided and recommendations are ...
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Submission on the DCS Annual Report 2011/12
This submission deals with human resources, staff training, children in prisons, discipline and turnstiles. Many of the problems facing the Department of ...
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Submission on the JICS Annual Report 2011/12
With this submission, CSPRI wishes to draw the Portfolio Committee’s attention to the fact that since its establishment in 2000, the JICS has not been the ...
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Submission to the South African Portfolio Committee on Correctional Services on the Correctional Matters Amendment Bill [B41 of 2010]
The submission to the South African Portfolio Committee on Correctional Services deals with the Correctional Matters Amendment Bill.
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Submission to the South African Portfolio Committee on Correctional Services on Human Rights and Inmate Labour in South Africa
This submission focuses on inmate labour in South Africa, with specific reference to the rights issues applicable and related to labour performed by sentenced ...
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Survey of Detention Oversight Mechanisms Provided for in the Laws of SADC Countries.pdf
Given the slow rate at which SADC countries have signed and ratified OPCAT, this paper explores existing statutory detention oversight mechanisms in the ...
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Survey of Detention Visiting Mechanisms in Africa
People held in places of detention are at risk of suffering violations of human rights because they are usually detained out of sight and their well-being is ...
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The Changing Face of Life Imprisonment in South Africa.pdf
This article investigates the meaning and use of life imprisonment in South Africa in four major legal historical eras: life imprisonment at the time when the ...
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The Department of Correctional Services HIV Prevalence Survey 2006.pdf
The Department of Correctional Service (DCS) commissioned an unlinked, anonymous HIV and syphilis surveillance research study among staff employed by, and ...
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The Effect of Sentencing on the Size of the South African Prison Population
This report was commissioned by the Open Society Foundation for South Africa (OSF) and recently presented at a conference on sentencing held in Cape Town. ...
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