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[Report] An assessment of the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) in South Africa

After signing the Optional Protocol to UNCAT (OPCAT) in 2006 and ratifying it in March 2019, South Africa designated a National Preventive Mechanism (NPM), ...

The deprivation of liberty is a serious intervention in any person’s life, and therefore the possibility of releasing an accused person from custody pending ...

A Guide to the Rights of Inmates as described in the Correctional Services Act and Regulations (Revised 2017)

The purpose of this guide is to describe in an accessible and user-friendly format the human rights framework pertaining to inmates in South Africa based on ...

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 ...

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. Report by Saras Jagwanth

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, ...

This report by the Zambian Human Rights Commission was based on a survey conducted to collect information on factors affecting access and conditions regarding ...

This is the statement that the Community Law Centre (predecessor of the Dullah Omar Institute) and the Article 5 Initiative, a project of which CSPRI was part, ...

This submission deals with two issues (1) Coordination across the criminal justice system (2) Priorities for reform in SAPS as they pertain to the draft SAPS ...

ACJR INFO SHEET 1: The operation of courts, police and correctional services during COVID-19 lock-down

This information sheet sets out the provisions per regulation concerning the functioning of the criminal justice system under the COVID-19 lock-down. Some ...