CSPRI '30 Days/Dae/Izinsuku' March 2008
Media reports on Sentencing & Parole; Unsentenced Prisoners; Security and Escapes; Children; Prison Construction; Governance and Corruption & Prisoners' Rights.
Newspaper reports include:
- Prisoners to be monitored electronically
- Younger offenders should be sent for correctional supervision
- Awaiting-trial prisoner's lawyer unhappy with the postponement of client's trial
- Awaiting-trial prisoners escape from a police van
- Bill could reduce the age of babies living with imprisoned mothers
- Department and Portfolio Committee disagree on private prisons
- Department of Correctional Services recovers 22 million rand
- Department of Correctional Services ordered to reinstate fired warder
- Correctional Services Portfolio Committee chairperson says prisoners should be stripped of privileges
.... and many more newspaper articles on prison-related issues