Albertus, Chesne2013-01-282013-01-282012Albertus, C. (2012). Protecting inmates' dignity and the public's safety: a critical analysis of the new law on medical parole in South Africa. Law, Democracy and Development, 16: 185-1982077-4907http://hdl.handle.net/10566/518This paper is aimed at critically assessing the new section 79 of the Correctional Services Act and whether it creates a medical parole system which protects the dignity of inmates and gives due consideration to public safety.en© 2012 Albertus; licensee University of the Western Cape. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Medical paroleDignitySafetyArticle