The fifth African Workshop on Prison Infrastructure, convened on 9 June 2025, in Windhoek, Namibia, marking a critical step forward in the continent’s efforts to reform correctional systems through ...

Six convicts in Najiran prison have already been beheaded over the past month, inmates tell MEE, amid uptick in executions ...

Ralph Stanfield, the alleged leader of the 28s street gang, has leveraged his criminal notoriety on the streets to achieve something exceptional in the South African prison system: rapid induction ...

Frik Potgieter and Peter Huxham were jailed for more than two years after Vice-president Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue’s ...

Whilst governments claim reform and rehabilitation as the aim of criminal justice, in practice prison systems fail to deliver this. Prison systems investigated here are in crisis, burdened with ...

Behind Prison Walls: Unlocking a Safer South Africa invites readers behind the bars of South Africa's correctional system, revealing the deep scars left by colonial and apartheid history.

Soroti Regional Office has sounded alarm over deteriorating human rights conditions in prisons across Eastern Uganda, revealing that extreme congestion has forced inmates in some facilities to sleep ...

SARS is clamping down on non-compliance hard, and taxpayers are being warned to comply or face severe penalties, including ...

Landor, an adherent of the Rastafari religion, even carried a copy of a ruling by the appeals court in another inmate’s case ...

Prisons have become a fragile link in many criminal justice systems, weakened by over-incarceration, overcrowding, poor conditions and chronic neglect ...

Todd continued, “Being in the prison system, anyone that says that it’s a fair shake — it’s not. “Because I dealt with young African-American males in the prison that I was in that were ...

On 5 July, the Boko Haram breakaway faction Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) led a successful attack on a well-secured prison in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja. The group shot its way into the ...