In today’s Mail & Guardian, Sonke’s Emily Keehn, Czerina Patel and Lawyers For Human Rights‘ Clare Ballard write about the oppressive and disease-inducing conditions subjected upon awaiting trial detainees at Pollsmoor Prison’s severely overcrowded remand facilities:
Comment: Overcrowded jails deadly, inhumane
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