The 22-year-old Lamkelo Mtyho had no known health issues when he joined his peers, wrapped in blankets and smeared in clay, for the most important ritual of his young life: the highly secretive ...

A video showed a prisoner cooking inside his cell, sparking concern about safety, oversight, and conditions in South African ...

Vincent Smith’s jailing is a landmark, but most of those implicated in South Africa’s state capture remain beyond the reach ...

Chief Inspector of Prisons voiced grave concerns over two jails which are releasing high-risk inmates directly onto the ...

A Bulgarian national, facing a 16-year prison sentence for drug trafficking, argues in Wynberg Magistrate’s Court that he is not a flight risk and should be granted bail, despite the State's claims of ...

Most Americans don’t know what it’s like inside the United States’ 1,664 state and federal prisons. 1 Yet even those who believe the primary purpose of incarceration is to deter crime or to inflict ...

South African couple Melany and Peet Viljoen were recently arrested in the US for allegedly shoplifting groceries worth thousands of dollars over several months. Now they are barred from the store, ...

South Africa’s president has authorized a yearlong deployment by the army to fight crime in some of the country’s violence-stricken areas.

Legal frameworks that only regulate formal psychiatric facilities are written for a system the majority will not use.