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New initiative aims to curb human rights violations and the spread of HIV in South Africa’s prisons.
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Mrs. Mhlantla’s appointment to the bench of the Constitutional Court marks a great step towards achieving gender-equal jurisprudence in SA.
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Faith Carter reports on the horrendous conditions suffered by inmates at Pollsmoor in the Constantiaberg Bulletin.
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A report released earlier this year reveals the horrendous conditions suffered by the inmates of Cape Town’s Pollsmoor Prison.
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Is Pistorius’s brief prison sentence part of a larger pattern of inadequate punishment against intimate femicide in South Africa?
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A step in the right direction for South African judiciary, but institutional gender discrepancies continue to persist.
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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, …
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How the overcrowded conditions of South Africa’s prisons contribute to the increased spread of disease and violence among prisoners.
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Sonke Gender Justice, Just Detention International & NICRO are partnered to increase public awareness around prisoner rape. In the Mail & Guardian today, three brave men who went through a digital story-telling process with us speak out about rape in …
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Thabo (not his real name) went to prison when he was just 21 years old and was repeatedly raped during the decade he spent behind bars. Thabo attempted suicide but was not successful, unlike three other inmates he knew who …
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Francois shares his horrifying story of rape he experienced in an Eastern Cape correctional centre.
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An exposition of the awful conditions that detainees in Cape Town’s Pollsmoor prison have to suffer.
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Sonke’s prisons work is featured in an article on the violation of health rights in South African prisons in the Mail and Guardian. http://mg.co.za/article/2015-04-23-prisoners-health-rights-routinely-violated-in-sas-jails
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Sonke endorses the Detention Justice Forum’s submission to the Portfolio Committee on Justice & Correctional Services on the Department of Correctional Services 2015-2016 budget. The Forum is calling for the Department to cease its wasteful expenditure trying to defend against …
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Civil Society Organisations form constructive alliances in defence of the wellbeing of prison inmates.
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Most of us have never heard about the horror of prisoner rape from someone who has survived it, and whose life was changed forever as a result. Most of us have not heard that much about prisoner rape at all. …
Thabo* went to prison when he was just 21 years old and was repeatedly raped during the decade he spent behind bars. Thabo attempted suicide but was not successful, unlike three other inmates he knew who were raped then took …
Francois was violently raped twice in an Eastern Cape correctional centre, once at knife-point, and another on Valentine’s Day. He reported the rapes to the warders, but never received counseling or support. In despair, Francois attempted suicide. After being released, …
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