Programme News
3 April 2014
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Tied to a chair, with a plastic bag over his head and a rope around his neck, a man is electrocuted, the shocks causing deep scorches on his skin.
A Klerksdorp man, accused of theft, claims this was how he was tortured by police officers.
His is one of many cases of brutal treatment of prisoners, suspects and young black men, allegedly committed by police officers and prison warders, according to...
27 March 2014
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Dudley Lee, 59, walked out of Pollsmoor Prison in Cape Town, South Africa a free man in 2003. He is now a prisoner of the disease he acquired there. Awaiting trial on charges of fraud and money-laundering, Lee was incarcerated for four years and contracted tuberculosis (TB) in the prison’s unsanitary conditions. Although Lee was exonerated for a lack of evidence, he received no apology from...
1 October 2013
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Conditions in South African prisons remain poor, with inmates becoming increasingly frustrated with their treatment, the 2012/13 annual report of the Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Centres (JICS) has found.
The report was tabled in Parliament last week.
"The inspecting judge [of prisons] characterised 2012 as a year of uprisings by inmates in correctional centres," the report...