South Africa: Fact Sheet - the State of South Africa's Prisons

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South Africa's most famous ex-prisoner wrote in his autobiography that "no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails". In this fact sheet, we provide data to show what's going on inside South African prisons.

In December 2015, the United Nations general assembly adopted the first update to minimum standards on treating prisoners in 50 years - and named it in late South African president Nelson Mandela's honour.

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