Thabo Bester’s escape shows how privatising harms crime control
We should question the issue of prison outsourcing when the motive is profit and not public safety
prison-industrial complex
Is the idea of rehabilitation redundant in South Africa?
Without the political incentive for fundamental economic change, the fortunes and possibilities for rehabilitation of ex-offenders will not, and cannot, change
Fraser saves Zuma from prison – again
The correctional services commissioner (and former spy boss tied to state capture) overruled the medical board’s dismissal of the former president’s application for parole
Merchants of despair
When imprisonment becomes a business, the profit motive rears its head at the expense of the good of the prisoners. Three recent books deal with the murky workings of the prison-industrial complex in South Africa
