Johannesburg - South African prisoners are nowhere near being given the human-rights friendly treatment aimed at setting them on a path to rehabilitation.
“But all of us do know that it was a prison system with no room for human rights, one designed to rob each prisoner of his human dignity and which thereby in the end also took away the human dignity of the prison authorities and personnel themselves,” Mandela said during an address to launch human rights training for correctional services employees.
Justice Edwin Cameron, the respected former Constitutional Court judge and current incumbent at the helm of Jics, told the Wits Justice Project that the most pressing operational challenges revolve around:which requires that the Department of Correctional Services must report certain acts to Jics.
“We are an interested civil society stakeholder in the establishment and success of an independent and effective National Preventive Mechanism and support the efforts of Jics to promote the fundamental tenets of Opcat in its enabling legislation. She said while key changes have been made since apartheid – not least eradicating the race-based system, the foregrounding of human rights in governing legislation and establishment of oversight bodies – the reality on the ground is a far cry from that envisioned in the progressive policy framework, and the poor are hardest hit in the criminal justice system.
The second problem, according to Justice Cameron, is not directly operational but depends on the understanding of incarceration and its function in South Africa.
edwinnaidu Think it should read “the way a government treats it citizens”....!
edwinnaidu Instead of having them caged the whole day,let the work the plantation,fill up potholes under supervision.
edwinnaidu Overcrowded because there are no consequences for bad behaviour. Them them be abused like they abused their victims
edwinnaidu Did they show dignity towards their victims? SAHRCommission no they violated their right to dignity and freedom. They do not deserve it.
edwinnaidu Should have no dignity
edwinnaidu Janee...
edwinnaidu Still no dignity for the victims of criminals in prison!
edwinnaidu Uhhhhh....helllooooo...they're prisoners... you know....nasty, evil, dangers to society......🤬😤
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