This issue contains the following: prison conditions and security; governance and corruption; sentencing; human resources; prisoners' rights and death; prison construction; rehabilitation.
This issue contains information on: Governance; Sentencing; Overcrowding; Rehabilitation; Parole; Prisoners' rights and treatment; Prison staff; Privatisation; News from other African countries.
This issue contains information on the following: Children; Prisoners' rights; Rehabilitation and Reintegration; Governance and Administration; Parole; Overcrowding; News from other African countries.
Lukas Muntingh (senior researcher of CSPRI) provides a detailed article on the Correctional Services estimates of expenditure for the period 2007/8 to 2009/10 following the Minister of Finance's budget speech. This year, the Department of Correctional Services will be requesting from Parliament a mere 0.9% more than the previous year's request.
In this issue: In this newsletter, Robyn Ballntyne (Research Assoc. of Omega Research) writes on the mechancial restraint on prisoners and detainees and Lukas Muntingh (Senior researcher of CSPRI) writes on torture not being a crime in South Africa.
In this issue: Rob Allen (Director of International Centre for Prison Studies) writes on the Future of Crime and Imprisonment in Africa and CSPRI comments on the Release of the Jali Commission Report.
In this issue: Lukas Muntingh (senior researcher of CSPRI) and Christopher Mbazira (doctoral intern of the Socio-Economic Rights Project) writes about Prisoners' access to anti-retroviral treatment; Update on EN and Others v the Government of South Africa and Others (access to ARV treatment at Westville Correctional Centre); An overview of South African Prisons until March 2006
In this issue: Post independence prison reform in Namibia by Tarrin-Rae Oxyche; nominations of Independent Prison Visitors by the Office of the Inspecting Judge by CSPRI staff; SA prisons at a glance - update by CSPRI staff
In this issue: Lukas Muntingh (senior researcher of CSPRI) writes about the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) budget for the MTEF for 2006/7 to 2008/9. He touches on the DCS budget in relation to the national budget, trends in the budget and key issues for comment in the budget in this issue of the CSPRI Newsletter.
In this issue: Martin Schonteich (senior legal officer of Open Society Justice Initiative, NY) writes on the Pre-trial Dentention in Africa; The CSPRI staff give an update on the South African prisons from May to August 2005
In this issue: Parole pandenonium by Prof. Julia Sloth-Nielsen (senior law professor, UWC); Victims of crime and the parole boards by Lukas Muntingh (senior research, CSPRI); South African prisons at a glance (February 2005 to May 2005)
Find out more about the possible new sentencing principle in the context of HIV/AIDS, access to antiretroviral treatment, as well as an overview of prisons between February 2005 and August 2005.
