Issue 27: The High Cost of Prison
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2011-2012 Annual Report on Non-custodial Sentencing
NICRO has rendered non-custodial sentencing services in South Africa under DFID funding since 2008. This report covers the 2011 – 2012 period.
Special Recognition
We would like to give special recognition to the following people who have gone the extra mile in promoting non-custodial sentencing. The following people have taken the values of NCS and restorative justice to heart. They have been nominated by NICRO staff for their efforts to raise the profile of NCS and restorative justice. They [...]
NICRO’s Criminal Justice Knowledge Forum
In 2009 NICRO created an online knowledge forum that focuses on the criminal justice sector. The forum is intended for criminal justice academics, practitioners, researchers and members of the judiciary. To join the forum, you have to sign up and have your request approved. There are currently 131 members. The forum boasts a searchable research [...]
O.F.Fender Writes Again From Prison
Greetings Free People, For my first proper entry I was trying to decide on a topic. Something that would be hard-hitting, attention-grabbing, arresting (pun intended). Was I going to express an opinion on our incompetent judicial officers? Our corrupt and lazy Correctional Services officers? Perhaps drugs in prison, or a comment on the torture that [...]
NICRO DCS budget submission 2011 – 2012
In this submission we raise issues of minimum standards of humane detention; call for a policy review of the 2005 White Paper on Corrections; draw attention to the fact that challenges faced by the DCS also involve the work of other departments in the JCPS cluster, which as a cluster should be called to account; [...]
NICRO submission on DCS budget 2010 – 2011 and strategic plan 2010/11 – 2014/15
“Transparent and accountable governance is strengthened when comprehensive budget documents are tabled for public scrutiny and legislative oversight.” In the words of the Judicial Inspectorate of Prisons recent Annual report3 the budget is regarded as a powerful lever in the hands of the Portfolio Committee, which can use it as an instrument to guide and [...]
Submission on the DCS Annual Report 2009
We would like to specifically congratulate DCS on the following: Notable reduction in audit qualifications as reported in the Annual report The 18 Wellness Centres aimed at ensuring access to Anti-Retrovirals (ARV’s)- (p.8) On acknowledging that there are challenges and areas that need improvement, and the acknowledgement that strategic partnerships are key to achieving success [...]
NICRO submission on the Department of Correctional Services Budget 2009 – 2010
The mandate of the DCS is defined in the CSA, section 2, is “to contribute towards maintaining and protecting a just, peaceful, and safe society, by enforcing court-imposed sentences in the manner prescribed by the CSA, detaining inmates in safe custody and promoting social responsibility and the human development of all offenders and persons subject [...]
