An alarming increase in South Africa's prison population highlights the challenges faced by the Department of Correctional ...

A South African court has given a man an eight year prison sentence after finding him guilty of holding his former employer ...

Finland, with its balance between integration and stigma, could be a model for South Africa to bring down its high rate of re ...

Oscar Pistorius has competed in his first public sports event since being convicted of murdering girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

The book describes practical steps to reform the prison system. A new book, taking a deep dive into South Africa’s correctional system and how it can be improved, was launched in Johannesburg this ...

Thirty-seven years after the unsolved assassination of the African National Congress (ANC) representative in Paris, a French ...

Hundreds of state patients - people declared mentally unfit to stand trial or to be held criminally liable - are being kept ...

The Group of Friends of the Nelson Mandela Rules reaches 50 members as momentum builds for prison and penal reform worldwide ...

Prison officers strengthen their respect for human rights through United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) - hosted ...

The migrants — convicted of murder, sexually assaulting minors, robbery and arson, among other crimes — are being housed in a ...

Within three months, 6,571 more inmates occupied prisons throughout South Africa, bringing the total ... noting that the prison population increased from 160,353 on 30 September 2024.