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Inside Ghana's Prisons
This 49 minute video provides a comprehensive overview of prisons in Ghana by region and prison, including prison capacity figures and occupation figures.
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Correlates of violence in Guinea’s Maison Centrale Prison: A statistical approach to documenting human rights abuses
by Ronald E Osborn, published in 'Health and Human Rights'. Les Mêmes Droits Pour Tous (MDT) is a human rights NGO in Guinea, West Africa that focuses on the ...
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Photographs taken of Guinea's Maison Centrale Prison
These photographs were taken in 2005 and 2007 by an intern with the Adventist Development & Relief Agency (ADRA).
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A Review of Civilian Oversight over Correctional Services in the Last Decade (Research Paper No. 4)
The restricted and hidden nature of the prison regime was dramatically apparent in apartheid South Africa, where prisons shunned outside scrutiny and ...
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A Review of the Judicial Inspectorate of Prisons of South Africa (Research Paper No. 7)
This paper reviews the effectiveness of the Judicial Inspectorate in fulfilling this mandate as an oversight structure.
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A Societal Responsibility: The role of civil society organisations in prisoner support, rehabilitation and reintegration
There is a growing number of civil society organisations in South Africa working with offenders and prisoners focusing on prisoner support, rehabilitation and ...
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A study of best practice in prison governance (Research Paper No. 9)
Despite the fact that the Department of Correctional Services has attracted significant media attention as a result of the Jali Commission's investigations, ...
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Alternative Sentencing Review (Research Paper No 6)
Whilst the South African legislation makes ample provision for non-custodial sentencing options, practice reveals that these sentencing options are severely ...
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An Assessment of the Impact of HIV/AIDS on Correctional System governance with Special Emphasis on Correctional Services Staff
The incidence of HIV/AIDS infection in South African prisons has been extensively documented in recent years. This research has focused variously on the ...
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Corruption in the prisons context
The point of departure of this paper is that corruption is a human rights issue, which is accentuated in the prison context given the nature of imprisonment. ...
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