The 22-year-old Lamkelo Mtyho had no known health issues when he joined his peers, wrapped in blankets and smeared in clay, ...

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

Discover the significance of Human Rights Day in South Africa and explore the historical sites that commemorate the struggle for equality and justice. From the Sharpeville Memorial to Freedom Park, ...

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.

The Alabama Solution,” a smuggled cellphone chronicle of inmate deaths, sexual abuse and deplorable conditions inside what ...

Women charged with a crime in Senegal are at the mercy of a slow judicial process and prisons that may lack basic supplies. They also face stigma that robs them of familial and community support.

The Western Cape High Court in Cape Town has denied bail to alleged gang leader Moegamat “Bubbles” Brown, finding that ...

Feb. 25 (UPI) --Pope Leo XIV will make a 10-day trip through Africa visiting four countries in a trip seen as significant to Catholics in the continent. The itinerary includes Algeria in north Africa, ...

Monrovia– The Ministry of Justice has opened an immediate investigation into a leaked video from Monrovia Central Prison that officials say violated the rights of inmates and may have breached prison ...