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

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 ...

A Bulgarian national, facing a 16-year prison sentence for drug trafficking, argues in Wynberg Magistrate’s Court that he is ...

Most Americans don’t know what it’s like inside the United States’ 1,664 state and federal prisons. 1 Yet even those who ...

South African couple Melany and Peet Viljoen were recently arrested in the US for allegedly shoplifting groceries worth ...

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

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

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.

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

The Ministry of Interior has outlined what personnel in the National Police Service, Kenya Prisons Service and National Youth Service will earn once a 40 per cent salary increase is fully implemented.