Civil Society Prison Reform
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The Civil Society Prison Reform Initiative, is a research and advocacy project focussing on prisons and places of confinement in the African region, with the aim of furthering constitutional and human rights imperatives within these settings.
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Item Juvenile justice review 1994-1995(South African Journal of Criminal Justice, 1995) Julia, Sloth-NielsenThis review of the state of juvenile justice in South Africa introduces a new section to this journal in which annual developments relating to law and policy in the field of juvenile justice will be examined. Juvenile justice has long been a Cinderella topic in the South African legal and academic arena. Legislation relating to juvenile justice is spread out in various sections in the Criminal Procedure Act 1977, the Child Care Act, and the Correctional Services Act. No textbook for those practitioners concerned with juvenile justice has yet been published, and journal articles on aspects relating to juveniles in trouble with the law are sporadic. However, juvenile justice issues have for some years been the focus of media attention. Activists have drawn attention to the plight of children detained in prisons and police cells in particular. At an international seminar hosted by the Community Law Centre in 1993, the matter of comprehensive and radical legislative reform was mooted (see Report of the International Seminar on 'Children in Trouble with the Law', Community Law Centre, 1995). An outcome of the conference was the establishment of a drafting team, which set to work to produce innovative proposals for a new juvenile justice system. Published in November 1994 by the Drafting Consultancy as 'Juvenile Justice for South Africa: Proposals for Policy and Legislative Change' (discussed in D Pinnock, A Skelton, R Shapiro (1994) 3 SACJ 338-347), the document has inspired much of the current debate about legislative and policy reform for juveniles who come into conflict with the law.Item Pocket Guide to Arrest and Detention in Malawi, Lilongwe(Paralegal Advisory Services Institute (PASI), Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP), Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR), the Centre for Human Rights Education, Advice and Assistance (CHREAA), and the Community Law Centre (CLC) of the University of the Western Cape, 2015) Redpath, JeanThis guide is for anyone who needs a quick reference to the laws around arrest and detention in Malawi. This may include police, court clerks, prosecutors, magistrates, paralegals and detainees. First there is an orientation to the criminal justice system and a diagram and summary of what happens in Malawi around arrest and detention, page 1. The main part of the book focuses on what the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Code says. It starts with when and how arrest can happen and possibilities for release at the police station, page 4. This is followed by a section on how things happen in court and how people can be released by the court, page 12. There are special sections on the arrest and release of children, pages 7 and 11. There is also a list of children’s offences that are considered serious, see page 34, and there is a section on the maximum times allowed for the commencement and duration of trial, page 16. The rights of every person in Malawi, as well as the specific rights of those who have been arrested and detained are described, pages 18 - 21. The meanings of legal words can be found in the glossary near the back, page 22. At the very back is a long list of all the offences for which someone can be arrested in Malawi. These offences are divided into those that need a warrant for arrest, and those that do not, page 26.