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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Trends in the exercise of prosecutorial discretion
Armchair discussion on the National Prosecuting Authority, 22 November 2016, Jean Redpath
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Tuberculosis in a South African prison – a transmission modelling analysis
Simon Johnstone-Robertson, Stephen D Lawn, Alex Welte, Linda-Gail Bekker, Robin Wood. From South African Medical Journal 2011;101:809-813. Prisons are ...
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UNODC and UNAIDS: Women and HIV in Prison Settings
Women prisoners present specific challenges for correctional authorities despite, or perhaps because of the fact that they constitute a very small proportion ...
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US Department of State Human Rights Report: South Africa 2012
2012 Human Rights Report
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