There is irony in Msholozi being forced under the heel of the monstrous correctional services system he propped up – will he return behind bars?
We should question the issue of prison outsourcing when the motive is profit and not public safety
Without the political incentive for fundamental economic change, the fortunes and possibilities for rehabilitation of ex-offenders will not, and cannot, change
The correctional services commissioner (and former spy boss tied to state capture) overruled the medical board’s dismissal of the former president’s application for parole
During his tenure as president he enabled state capture and the building of the prison industrial complex
If the rich and powerful are afforded amnesty, then so too must the poor who are often pushed into lives of crime
When imprisonment becomes a business, the profit motive rears its head at the expense of the good of the prisoners. Three recent books deal with the murky workings of the…