This newsletter focuses primarily on the Correctional Services Portfolio Committee, from 2004 to 2009.
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CSPRI has presented two submissions to the Portfolio Committee on Social Development & the Portfolio Committee on Correctional Services.
These guidelines have been developed to aid in the provision of appropriate and quality care for prisoners living with or at risk of HIV infection in detention facilities in southern Africa.
Keep abreast on prison-related issues in South Africa and other African countries by reading media reports on the subject.
Evictions have continued after the end of apartheid and affect the most socially, economically, environmentally and politically disadvantaged and vulnerable sectors of the society, including the poor, women and children, who are engaged in a daily struggle to survive. These evictions at times result in homelessness and, in most instances, they occur in a manner that is incompatible with the fundamental human rights contained in the Constitution as well as other procedural safeguards on evictions.
Download the latest issue of Iminyango. It's feature story contains the findings of the Medical Research Council's HIV prevention programme, "Stepping Stones".
Media topics covered in November's issue include: governance & corruption; unsentenced prisoners; security & escapes; parole & sentencing; conditions of detention and reports about other African countries
A press statement has been issued by the Civil Society Prison Reform Initiative on Prisoner Participation in the upcoming General Elections. This press statement was issued on 26 January 2009.
Media reports on Sentencing & Parole; Unsentenced Prisoners; Security and Escapes; Children; Prison Construction; Governance and Corruption & Prisoners' Rights.
Download the brochure on the Children's Act, which protects all children up to the age of 18 years.
Why talk about torture in post-apartheid South Africa? Is torture not something that we have left in the past? Regrettably torture, and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment still takes place in South Africa; this reality did not end on 27 April 1994.
This newsletter focuses primarily on the latest amendment to the Correctional Services Act, which is written by Amanda Dissel (Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation).