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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. ...

The Treatment of Children in South African Prisons - A Report on the Applicable Domestic and International Minimum Standards (Research Paper No. 11)

The purpose of this report is to describe the compliance requirements in terms of domestic and international law for the Department of Correctional Services as ...

The impact of sentencing on the size of the prison population

South Africa has a serious prison overcrowding problem. The total number of prisoners has grown steadily and dramatically over the last 11 years. The cause of ...

The law and the business of criminal record expungement in South Africa

This report reviews the use and expungement of criminal records in South Africa and was prompted by a recent amendment to the Criminal Procedure Act which ...

Journal of the International AIDS Society 2011, 14:8. "To better understand the relationship between prison conditions, the criminal justice system, and HIV ...

by Rudolph Peters, University of Amsterdam Published in Annales Islamologiques, 36 (2002), pp. 253-285

These rules seek to set out what is generally accepted as being good principle and practice in the treatment of prisoners and the management of institutions. ...