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news

Man gets LIFE for the RAPE of a 15-year-old girl

Biggest racial gap in prison is among violent offenders
News

Biggest racial gap in prison is among violent offenders

Health care offered to women in prison should match their rights
Health and Fitness

Health care offered to women in prison should match their rights

man life rape girl
News

Man gets LIFE for the RAPE of a 15-year-old girl

Biggest racial gap in prison is among violent offenders
News

Biggest racial gap in prison is among violent offenders

Health care offered to women in prison should match their rights
Health and Fitness

Health care offered to women in prison should match their rights

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News

Neighbour gets 22 years for raping a 6-year-old girl

By Virginia Keppler-Young05-03-2023 17:00

A man was sentenced to 22 years in jail for the rape of a six year old girl.

Cambodia opposition leader jailed 27 years for treason
World News

Cambodia opposition leader jailed 27 years for treason

By Agence France-Presse03-03-2023 12:11

Top Cambodian opposition leader Kem Sokha was Friday sentenced to 27 years in jail for treason in a case denounced as a “miscarriage of justice”.

Life prison rape robbery
News

Man gets life for the rape of an elderly woman

By Virginia Keppler-Young02-03-2023 18:09

A man was sentenced to life in prison for the rape of an elderly woman and robbery.

suspect murder 13 years
News

A Gqeberha man gets two life terms for the rape and murder of a little girl

By Virginia Keppler-Young10-02-2023 22:32

A man was sentenced to two life terms imprisonment for the rape and murder of a five-year-old girl.

Prison journalism
Opinion

Prison journalism: Programming in Pennsylvania prisons gave this lifer purpose

By Jeffrey Shockley09-02-2023 08:57

Jeffrey Shockley is a writer serving a life sentence in the State Correctional Institution-Fayette in Pennsylvania.

death penalty execution bed
Prison Journalism

These are the 23 states in the USA that have abolished the death penalty

By Garrin Lambley08-02-2023 16:42

Of the 50 US states, 24 have the death penalty in place, while 23 have abolished it. The remaining 3 have a moratorium on the death penalty.

United States death penalty
Prison Journalism

Which states in the United States have the death penalty in effect?

By Garrin Lambley08-02-2023 11:48

The 29 June 1972 Furman v. Georgia Supreme Court ruling placed a de facto moratorium on the death penalty in the United States.

man life rape girl
News

Stepfather sentenced to life in prison for the RAPE of a minor 

By Virginia Keppler-Young24-01-2023 17:19

A stepfather was sentenced to life in prison for rape on his 12-year-old stepdaughter.

accused 13 years murder
News

LIFE in jail for man who murdered his girlfriend

By Virginia Keppler-Young17-01-2023 19:57

A 26-year-old man has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering his girlfriend.

Russian soldier
World News

Russian soldier jailed 5-years for refusing to fight in Ukraine

By Agence France-Presse12-01-2023 13:55

A Russian court sentenced a 24-year-old professional soldier to five years in prison for refusing to fight in Ukraine

Prison system in South Africa - prisons.
News

Prisons in South Africa need URGENT refinement and reformation

By Ground Up29-11-2022 13:34

South Africa’s prisons are home to serious human rights violations – some of which are significantly underreported.

Dance in prison
World News

Dance classes giving more prisoners hope

By Agence France-Presse28-11-2022 16:20

With little hope around them, prisoners in a high-security correction facility have found the light at the end of the tunnel with DANCE.

inmates
News

No inmates tried to escape in Gayton’s second chance programme

By Siso Naile17-11-2022 21:49

Gayton McKenzie is filled with joy and pride after inmates completed major repairs to the home of a GBV victim in the area

Life sentence
World News

Man who killed six in driving rampage given a LIFE sentence

By Agence France-Presse17-11-2022 16:30

A man who plowed his sports utility vehicle into a Christmas parade killing six people, was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison.

Prison conditions in South Africa
News

Prison conditions in South Africa need an URGENT upgrade

By Ground Up14-11-2022 15:59

The Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services has asked the Parliament to intervene on prison conditions in Mzansi.

Man gets HIV after serving unwarranted time in prison
News

Man contracts HIV while unjustly spending two years in prison

By Ground Up13-11-2022 20:41

Man who contracted HIV and was forcibly tattooed while in jail was awarded R2-million in damages for unjustly spending two years in prison.

Watch way that phones are smuggled into prisons video
News

WATCH | HOW phones are SMUGGLED into prisons [VIDEO]

By Ramadhani Kusaga12-11-2022 12:38

Need your news quickly? Watch daily News in a minute videos from The South African YouTube page for all that you really need to know!

Couple in jail for plot to SELL submarine secrets
World News

Bonnie and Clyde! Couple in jail for plot to sell NUCLEAR secrets

By Agence France-Presse10-11-2022 01:44

An engineer and his wife were sentenced to long prison terms for plotting to SELL submarine secrets to a foreign country.

UN demands Alaa Abdel Fattah release
World News

UN demands release of hunger-striking Abdel Fattah to save his life

By Agence France-Presse08-11-2022 23:41

The UN has called on Egypt to immediately release Alaa Abdel Fattah, a jailed dissident on hunger strike, saying his life was at risk.

MSF says children living in open prison
World News

MSF says children are living in ‘open air prison’ in Syria

By Agence France-Presse08-11-2022 02:45

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has deplored the fate of thousands of children living in “a giant open air prison” at Syria’s Al-Hol camp.

prison
News

SA prisons are overcrowded – but by how much?

By Rorisang Kgosana24-07-2022 06:00

The number of the prison population continues to increase while capacity for such perpetrators is insufficient.

Suu Kyi
World News

Myanmar ex-leader Suu Kyi sent to solitary confinement in prison

By Agence France-Presse24-06-2022 12:51

Myanmar ex-leader and a Nobel laureate Suu Kyi has been moved from house arrest to solitary confinement in a prison, source said Thursday

Euthanasia
News

‘Right-to-die’: South African doctor freed after 3 year euthanasia sentence

By Agence France-Presse21-06-2022 07:50

Sean Davison who was convicted of premeditated murders of three people he helped to die, was released Monday after 3 year euthanasia sentence

How to murder your husband
News

‘How to murder your husband’ writer sentenced to life in prison

By Agence France-Presse15-06-2022 08:30

‘How to murder your husband’ writer Nancy Crampton Brophy, 71, was sentenced to life in prison for a real murder of her husband, judge said

presidential candidate
Africa News

Ex-presidential candidate sentenced to 15 years in prison

By Agence France-Presse30-05-2022 13:39

Former presidential candidate Abdelmoneim Aboul Fotouh was sentenced 15 years in prison for spreading false news and incitement against state

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