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Author: Human Rights Watch (Organization) Publisher: Human Rights Watch ISBN: 9781564321268 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 140
Book Description
While visiting over twenty prisons as well as lockups in at least five different cities throughout South Africa, we found significant improvements had been made since the political climate began to change in 1990. Nevertheless, South Africa's prisoner-to-population ratio is among the highest in the world, and many aspects of prison life remain depressinly unchanged from the years of official apartheid. South African prisons are places of extreme violence, where assaults on prisoners by guards or fellow inmates are common and often fatal.
Author: Human Rights Watch (Organization) Publisher: Human Rights Watch ISBN: 9781564321268 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 140
Book Description
While visiting over twenty prisons as well as lockups in at least five different cities throughout South Africa, we found significant improvements had been made since the political climate began to change in 1990. Nevertheless, South Africa's prisoner-to-population ratio is among the highest in the world, and many aspects of prison life remain depressinly unchanged from the years of official apartheid. South African prisons are places of extreme violence, where assaults on prisoners by guards or fellow inmates are common and often fatal.
Author: Marie Morelle Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 100038151X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 186
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This interdisciplinary volume presents a nuanced critique of the prison experience in diverse detention facilities across Africa. The book stresses the contingent, porous nature of African prisons, across both time and space. It draws on original long-term ethnographic research undertaken in both Francophone and Anglophone settings, which are grouped in four parts. The first part examines how the prison has imprinted itself on wider political and social imaginaries and, in turn, how structures of imprisonment carry the imprint of political action of various times. The second part stresses how particular forms of ordering emerge in African prisons. It is held that while these often involve coercion and neglect, they are better understood as the product of on-going negotiations and the search for meaning and value on the part of a multitude of actors. The third part is concerned with how prison life percolates beyond its physical perimeters into its urban and rural surroundings, and vice versa. It deals with the popular and contested nature of what prisons are about and what they do, especially in regard to bringing about moral subjects. The fourth and final part of the book examines how efforts of reforming and resisting the prison take shape at the intersection of globally circulating models of good governance and levels of self-organisation by prisoners. The book will be an essential reference for students, academics and policy-makers in Law, Criminology, Sociology and Politics.
Author: Shuhaida Adam Publisher: GRIN Verlag ISBN: 365605004X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 12
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Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Sociology - Law and Delinquency, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, course: Social & Environment Issues, language: English, abstract: The topic of male rape has long been misunderstood and hushed over within society. Within the prison setting, however, much of the focus over the past few years has been on the actions of male rape and its complicated place within the incarcerated society. This assignment will look deeper into male rape within the prisons of South Africa.
Author: Lin van Schalkwyk Publisher: Gompel&Svacina ISBN: 9463711945 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 162
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Using the method of prison tourism, this book is guided by the question: ‘What are the South African prisons of today for?’ i.e. ‘What purposes do they serve?’ It gives an account of the author’s attempts to be the eyes and ears for a public who may never see the inside of South Africa’s prisons. Intimately sharing her experiences in these spaces, Lin van Schalkwyk focuses on the stories that are told by the people she encounters and places it alongside her own unfolding inner narrative. The Stories Within: Encounters with South African Prisons and its People is for anyone who wishes to embark on an honest journey of a young researcher entering the complex world of crime and criminal rehabilitation in South Africa.
Author: Ola Deval Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 148
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The book recounts life in a prison in South Africa. The authors who work here and the stories of inmates and on their behalf work to untangle those roots, sharing insights into the breakdown of prisoners' societies and communities - and offer realistic, workable suggestions for overcoming them. The book teaches them how to see that the offender is their own victim and engages them constructively. How they break the cycles of addiction, trauma, and crime to achieve reconciliation and transformation.
Author: Lynda Gilfillan Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351520652 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 290
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"This collection of prison writings straddles two continents, and compares and contrasts the political struggles that gave birth to two vibrant new democracies of the twenty-first century: South Africa and the Czech Republic. The triumph over decades of suffering endured by the ordinary citizens of these two countries is symbolized by their leaders, Nelson Mandela and Vaclav Havel.While the moral stature of these two men continues to act as a beacon for other political aspirants in a new century, they call upon us all to acknowledge the role played by ordinary men and women in effecting freedom and justice. For this reason, Fallen Walls focuses on the experiences of ordinary prisoners of conscience. It records three voices from the apartheid-era cells of Robben Island--Joseph Mati, Johnson Mgabela, Monde Mkunqwana--and three voices from communist-era prisons in Czechoslovakia--Jiri Mesicki, Lola Skodova, and Jiri Stransky. There are striking similarities as well as differences between the two sets of stories. On a personal level, the tales from Robben Island are characterized by an absence of bitterness and thoughts of revenge, while a sense of bleak isolation and lingering bitterness pervades accounts from the Czechoslovakian prisons and labor camps. The buoyant tone of triumph of the South Africans is balanced by the darker, more skeptical mood of the Czechs. In an age that teeters so precariously between hope and despair, the narratives of these six prisoners of conscience remind us not only of what we are, but also of what we may become.In a timely warning against complacency, Vaclav Havel notes in his foreword that ""the authors remind us anew of the price that is so often paid for freedom and democracy."" Fallen Walls will be of interest to historians, sociologists, human rights activists, and political scientists."
Author: Raymond Suttner Publisher: Ocean Press ISBN: 9781876175252 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 220
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After Raymond Suttner's arrest in 1975, he was subjected to torture, solitary confinement and long periods in jail. This book includes letters smuggled out of jail and provides insights into the psychological effects of confinement.
Author: Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Author: Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Author: Ruth Hopkins
Author: Marie Morelle
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Author: Shuhaida Adam
Author: Lin van Schalkwyk
Author: Ola Deval
Author: Lynda Gilfillan
Author: South Africa. Department of Foreign Affairs
Author: Raymond Suttner