Two members of the South African Police Service sustained injuries during a gunfight with two suspected cash-in-transit heist ...

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

"The biggest public policy mistake of the last 125 years was the war on drugs" Prisons in South Africa are notoriously under strain. Insiders at the Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services ...

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 ...

In Kenya today, just as in Apartheid South Africa, abductions by secret police units, torture in secret locations, enforced ...

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

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

Controversial politician Mehmet Vefa Dag is once again in custody, now serving a 90-day prison sentence after what appears to ...

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 ...

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.