Submission by CSPRI to the Portfolio Committee on Correctional Services on the Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services Annual Report 2008-9
The submission deals with the following: research and information; dealing with complaints; torture and ill treatment; deaths in custody, formulating clear recommendations, and performance indicators for centre-level monitoring.
Parliamentary Submission on the 2008/9 DCS Annual Report
This submission to the South African parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services on the 2008/9 Department of Correctional Services Annual Report addresses the issues of safe custody, challenges faced by the pre-trial detention population, staff management and social reintegration.
'I can't believe in justice anymore': Obstacles to justice for unlawful killings by police in Mozambique
This report renews Amnesty International’s call on the Mozambican authorities to ensure that there are thorough, prompt and impartial investigations into all cases of use of force by the police resulting in death; that the officers responsible for unlawful killings are brought to justice in fair trials; and that families of those killed receive adequate reparation. It highlights the obstacles to accessing justice for families of victims of unlawful killings by the police and calls on the authorities to remove these obstacles.
30 Days/Dae/Izinsuku October 2009
This month's newspaper articles focus on Prisoner Exchange and Transfer; Condition of Detention; Sentencing and Parole; Government and Corruption as well as prison related news from other parts of Africa.
Libya: Legacy of the Past, Prospects for the Future - Human Rights and the Management of Libyan Prisons
by Andy Barclay & Colin Allen, International Centre for Prison Studies, Kings College, London. Paper presented at The Middle East Centre at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, 25-27 September 2009
Masangano v Attorney General & Others [2009] MWHC 31
"The Applicants’ affidavits show that he is a convicted prisoner serving a 12 year prison term effective 2006. He was first at Chichiri Prison but presently he is at Domasi Prison. He avers that ever since his imprisonment, he and his fellow prisoners have been subjected to torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment which is an infringement of his rights which he believes to be non-derogable as per Section 44 of the Constitution."
Proposal for a Strategic Plan and Operational Aspects for the Control of Tuberculosis in Côte d'Ivoire Prisons
Prepared by the Programme National de Lutte contre la Tuberculose from Côte d’Ivoire with the support of Bernard Laouze, Alexandra Sanchez and Marie Catherine Receveur of ESTHER/Stop TB.
Parliamentary submission on the South Africa's Department of Correctional Services Annual Report 2009/10
This submission was made to South Africa's Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Correctional Services, in response to DCS tabling its 2009/10 Annual Report. The submission discusses internal and external accountability, inmate labour, parole and social reintegration, human resources management, and services to offenders.
30 Days/Dae/Izinsuku September 2009
This month's newspaper articles focus on the following topics: Governance and Corruption; Parole and Sentencing; Overcrowding; Safe Custody; Escapes; and Prison-related information in other African Countries.
30 Days/Dae/Izinsuku August 2009
Media Reports for August included within the following topics are: Conditions of Detention; Governance and Corruption; Labour Relations; Sentencing, Pardons and Parole; Escapes, Deaths and Security; and reports on prison reform in other parts of Africa.
Law on Violence against Women - including Female Genital Mutilation (2009)
Loi n°55/AN/09/6ème L relative à la violence contre les femmes notamment les Mutilations Génitales Féminines
30 Days/Dae/Izinsuku July 2009
This month's newspaper articles focus on the following topics: sentencing and parole; overcrowding; prison conditions; governance and corruption; and articles about prison related information in other African countries.
Well Oiled: Oil and Human Rights in Equatorial Guinea
"Human Rights Watch has documented real or perceived government opponents’ experiences of abuse ranging from arbitrary arrest and detention without trial to torture, harassment, and extrajudicial killing. As documented below, Equatoguinean security forces have also kidnapped opposition politicians in exile in order for them to stand trial in Equatorial Guinea."
LEI DE BASES DA ORGANIZAÇÃO JUDICIÁRIA
elaboração da presente proposta de Lei de Bases da Organização Judiciária é o resultado de um longo trabalho de investigação e de reflexão, com a participação de uma pluralidade de actores do sistema de justiça e da comunidade na elaboração do diagnóstico dos problemas e das propostas de solução
CSPRI Submission to the Portfolio Committee on Correctional Services on the Correctional Services Budget Vote 2009-10 Vote 18.pdf
The submission deals with the following: the size of the budget; the size of the prison population; Meeting the minimum standards of humane detention; Performance and operations indicators; Engaging prisoners in programmes and employment; Development of sentence plans; Preparing for release and post-release support; and the handover report.
CSPRI Newsletter No. 32 - July 2009
This issue focuses on the Relationship between Assault and Overcrowding in South African Prisons.
CSPRI Newsletter No. 31 - June 2009
This newsletter focuses on the List of Issues recently released by the UN Committee against Torture in view of South Africa's next periodic report that is due 31 December 2009.
30 Days/Dae/Izinsuku June 2009
Media articles on prison related issues include the following: prisoners' rights, South Africans in foreign prisons, medical parole, sentencing, parole and pardons, unsentenced prisoners.
Sierra Leone: A country review of crime and criminal justice 2008
African Human Security Initiative, Monograph 160, May 2009
Lesotho Correctional Service HIV and AIDS Policy
30 Days/Dae/Izinsuku May 2009
This issue captures news reports on the following topics: Sentencing and Parole; Conditions of Detention; Unsentenced Prisoners; Security and Escapes; and News reports from other countries in Africa.
CSPRI Newsletter No. 30 - May 2009
In this issue: Living below the minimum standards for prisoners - the state of Uganda's prisons.
Loi N°1 / 05 Portant Revision du Code Penal 2009
2009 Revised Penal Code
Service for Life: State Repression and Indefinite Conscription in Eritrea
A Human Rights Watch report.
30 Days/Dae/Izinsuku April 2009
Sentencing and Parole; Deaths in Custody; Election 2009; Security & Escapes; Medical Parole; as well as Media articles from other African countries.
Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services Annual Report 2008-2009.pdf
Constitutional Protection in the Cameroon: A critique of the Amendment Mechanisms
by Malah Ana, submitted to Central European University Legal Studies Department, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for a Masters in Law (LLM).
30 Days/Dae/Izinsuku March 2009
CSPRI Newsletter No. 29 - March 2009
In this issue: The Correctional Services Portfolio Committee: 2004 - 2009; SA Prisons at a glance.
Code of Criminal Procedure Act 5 of 2008
South Sudan's Code of Criminal Procedure
